Here We Go Again . . .

Kirstie is working out hard with DWTS and she's dropped a few dress sizes. 

Good for you Kirstie!

She says:  ". . . the other thing that’s really more significant to me — I mean, I love the whittling, I like being skinny — I’m really strong and really agile and it gave me a new life.”

How did it give you a new life K?

What exactly is different?  Your hair hasn't changed.  (You love your highlights, don't you?)

You've been skinny lots of times. 

Star Trek.
Cheers
Look Who's Talking
Parker Stevenson
Jenny Craig

You've been fat lots of times too:

Fat Actress
Veronica's Closet
Post Parker Stevenson
Post Jenny Craig

The problem is, when you are fat, you behave as if you are somehow unworthy.  You kvetch to Star and People and whoever will talk to you about how "disgusting" you feel and how "ashamed" you are. 

Kirstie -- YOU BANGED PARKER STEVENSON.  Do you know how many women would have LOVED to be in your shoes?  You have a life.  A really, really cool life.  You have a cool life when you are skinny and you have a cool life when you are fat. 

We love you both ways.

Now, in DWTS, you are working out and feeling great.  I am so happy for you.  But this is not the answer to your happy life!  If it is, you will be derailed at your first injury.  Then we have to look at more tabloid covers about how miserable you are.  Your happiness depends on you, not your dress size.

By all means, stay strong.  Stay agile.  But for God's sake -- KEEP YOUR LIFE.  (It's ok to ditch the highlights tho.)

 

An Open Letter to Carrie Fisher

Dear Carrie -- can I call you Carrie?

First, let me get this out of the way:  LOVED YOU in Blues Brothers.  That's my favorite role of yours.  I see Princess Leia every day because I have 3 little boys, which means that some version of Star Wars is on at my house 24/7.  Princess Leia is a great character, but NOTHING like Jake's Ex.  Awesome.

Carrie, I read your interview in People Magazine. 

Carrie. 

Carrie, Carrie, Carrie.

You have survived a childhood with very famous parents.  You have survived alcoholism and drug addiction.  You have built a career in your own right -- not as the daughter of two very famous celebs, but as an intelligent and versatile actress, writer and director.  You played Jake's Girlfriend in Blues Brothers for Chryssake.  Haven't you learned by now that you have intrinsic value? 

I understand that you feel that it is humiliating to be fat.  I'm fat.  I've felt that. 

But I don't feel that way anymore.  Humiliation is appropriate when you have done something shameful.

Have you slept with someone else's husband?  If so, then you deserve to be humiliated.  That is a horrible, shameful, ugly thing to do.

Remember when you stole money to buy drugs?  That was shameful. You felt humiliated once you were found out, right?  (Actually, I don't know if you've ever done that.  But my husband watches a lot of Addiction on TV, and he says stealing to buy drugs is pretty common.)

Being fat is not shameful.  You haven't done anything wrong.

You want a body like your 18 year old daughter has. Of course you do!  We all do!  But you aren't 18 any more.  You are in your 50's.  You have the body of someone in their 50's.

By all means, do what you can to be healthy.  Feel strong in your body.  Eat good, nutritious food.  Care for yourself.  But don't beat yourself up.

As for schilling for Jenny Craig?  THAT is humiliating.  Look what the media did to poor Kirsti Alley.  Valerie Bertanelli looks pretty good still, but I don't know how long she'll keep it up.  Besides, Jenny Craig has the worst hairstyle since Princess Leia.  I mean, it was cute once, but the 80's are over. 

I like Jenny Craig.  I do.  Jenny's food is pretty good.  The macaroni & cheese?  Yum.  The cheesecake is good and I love the French toast.  But you can't eat frozen entrees your whole life which is why Kirsti, Valerie and I have all gained back at least some -- if not all -- of the weight lost on the Jenny Craig program. 

So.  Try Jenny for a while if it jump starts you.  But if you really want health?  Stop feeling humiliated.  And then call my friend Victor at V-Fit.  You will feel great. 

Love,

Mary