Kirstie Alley Explains Weight Gain

Kirstie Alley, have you called Jenny?

The former Cheers star has been very public with her weight battle and now she’s even letting people know just how much poundage she’s put on. 

She says when she stepped on scale for the first time in 15 months, “I started screaming.

“It said 228 pounds, which is my highest weight ever. I was so much more disgusting than I thought!”

During her three years as a Jenny Craig spokesperson, Alley, 58, dropped 75 pounds to her lowest weight of 145.

But since leaving the company in 2007, she has not worked out, moving her gym equipment to the garage, and swapping small, low-calorie portions for Chinese takeout and pasta drenched with butter.

Now she’s on back on track, hiring a trainer, getting off the butter wagon and thinking of signing up for a triathlon.

Here’s the problem with flaunting your weight loss: when the pounds come back, so does the public scrutiny.

But we believe in Kirstie.

You know she’s got Valerie Bertinelli’s Jenny Craig ad taped to the inside of her fridge and she scowls at it every time she reaches for some cottage cheese or grapefruit.

—Sasha Perl-Raver