Kirstie Alley

Kirstie Alley has tackled her weight on television before, but only on the scripted show, Fat Actress. She's decided to take another stab at it on a new reality show on A&E.

The show will be about her life as a single mom in Hollywood, and her struggle with weight gain. It will air sometime next year.

Sometimes being a total geek pays off.

In his new memoir, A View from the Bridge, Nicholas Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, reveals that he cast Cheers actress Kirstie Alley in the film that kick-started her career as Romulan-Vulcan officer Lieutenant Saavik because she was obsessed with Spock. 

She was apparently so infatuated that she used to sleep with her Vulcan ears on.

That's what we call dedication. Who knew Kirstie Alley was so method?

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.