After all these years of having us believe it was discipline and healthy habits,
Star Jones Reynolds is finally admitting that gastric bypass surgery shrunk her suddenly from a 300-plus pound freebie-chomping Bridezilla behemoth to a shriveled, bespectacled, female-married-to-a gay-guy version of TV's
Urkel.
Big surprise, right?
But though her "confession" is one of those secrets everyone already knew, the belated revelation says something about how much we can believe a woman who's touted herself as one of the voices of truth in the legal system as a former ADA, and on The View and Court TV.
"I was scared of what people might think of me," she says in "I'm Ready To Open Up," an article in the new Glamour magazone that carries her byline. Which again calls into question Star's candor because the authorship label is about as honest as the "executive editor" title she gets on her new Court TV show-- more likely an excuse to allow the magazine to not only pay her but give its ghostwriter poetic license.
And what great license it is-- the article is a doozy, full of obvious whoppers (and not all of the Burger King variety), and demands public readings as much as Star's book, Shine: A Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Journey to Finding Love:
"To compensate for my insecurities, I spoke louder and ate more: Whenever I felt lonely, a Double Whopper with cheese became my friend. If I felt sad, six strips of bacon made me feel better. Soon I was up to 225 pounds, which, when you are 5'5" and lazy and sedentary, is neither fly nor curvaceous, but I convinced myself I was phat, not fat...
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