When actress Kirstie Alley went on The Today Show to promote her new show Big Life she didn’t think she’d have to defend her new weight-loss program. Interviewed by Meredith Viera, the show suggested that Kirstie’s Organic Liaison product was actually a front for and shares its profits with the church of Scientology.

The 59-year-old practically lost her cool saying the insinuations are “bullshit” and that the church’s leaders are in no way connected to her diet program.

“It’s not true,” she said in the video interview after letting the expletive slip. And when questioned about whether the profits go to the church she said: “No, they don’t. I’m way too cheap for that.”

Kirstie’s interview with Meredith continued as they spoke about her food compulsion and its comparison to her previous addiction to cocaine, why she’s filming a reality TV show when she actually hates reality television, and how her Organic Liaison product actually works.

Later on Twitter, Kirstie continued to vent saying she was blindsided and that The Today Show should be ashamed of themselves.

The former Jenny Craig spokesperson and actress Kirstie Alley is on the weight loss path once again. After finishing her stint with the company she gained everything back and was up to her original ‘fat’ weight of 228 pounds.

This time around she’s doing it her own way as she has launched her own organic weight loss product line called, Organic Liaison and so far she has lost 20 pounds since starting the supplements in January. Her goal in creating the product was to help her with her two biggest hurdles; cravings and a big appetite. In addition, she wanted something that didn’t require purchasing pre-made meals and storing them in the house and she wanted something the whole family could use. She explained,

“Also one that would actually improve mine and my kids health along with shrinking my awesomely ample bottom.”

Organic Liaison is the first USDA-approved organic weight loss program that targets cravings and appetite. The all-natural supplements include vitamins and amino acids that reduce carbohydrate cravings, aide in sleep and alleviates muscle pains. Keep in mind that getting USDA approval is no easy task, for example, the popular Kardashian sisters’ product QuickTrim does not have the USDA stamp. However, be it QuickTrim or Organic Liaison remember that it’s a quick fix and it not teaching self-discipline when it comes to healthy eating habits.

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It will be interesting to see if Kirstie keeps the weight off this time, since she’s got her own weight loss products to sell. Hopefully that’s enough motivation for her… otherwise my advice is to skip the supplements, the pills, the promises and eat more whole foods!

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Kirstie Alley may be forever struggling with her weight but she’s definitely making a business out of it and making plenty of money. It all started a few years ago when she lost weight on Jenny Craig. Even though she gained the weight back she still received a huge payment for endorsing the product. Then she gets her own reality show, Kirstie Alley’s Big Life, which will chronicle her current weight loss journey and of course she will get a paycheck for that. And now we discover that she’s launching her own weight loss company that will cater to the ‘average overweight American.’ Even more money!  She said that with her magic ‘elixir’ she has already dropped 20 pounds in the past eight weeks. She said,

“Im not a doctor or a nutritionist – I’m a regular person like you who has been struggling with her weight and searching and praying for a weight loss program to end that forever.”

The name of her new company, Organic Liason, will develop a series of slimming products. One of the products is Rescue Me and it takes on excess hunger and cravings. She explained,

“It will support your body and flood your body with the missing elements that make weight loss an uphill battle.”

She will have to lose a considerable amount of weight to get people to believe in her product. It’s easy for Kim Kardashian to sell QuickTrim because she’s got a great body, but who wants to look like Kirstie Alley? We’ll have to wait and see.

Kirsti Alley’s Big Life premieres on March 21st on the A&E network.

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Another celeb, another weight loss product… Save your money and eat fruits and veggies. Why do people try to make the obvious solution so difficult?

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Kirstie Alley is probably the only celebrity (other than Oprah) who has had to fight her tumultuous battle with her weight under the harsh scrutiny of the media. I can’t remember any other actress who has gained 75 pounds, then lost 75 pounds and then gained it all again and had to face the paparazzi and their criticism.

It’s been confirmed that the former Fat Actress star will be filming her own reality TV series Kirstie Alley’s Big Life, in 10 half-hour episodes which premier on 21 March 2010. In the promotional video above, Kirstie dismisses the fact that people call her “full-figured”, instead saying that she’s just “fat”.

“I hate being fat. I’m not one of those girls who go ‘I’m loud and I’m proud’,” Kirstie says. “Or you know ‘I’m large and I’m in charge’. I hate it! I’m so down with the booty call, but I don’t want to be fat booty call, I want to be skinny booty call.”

The 59-year-old actress has had her personal life play out in the media for so many years already, I’m not quite sure what more we can still learn about Kirstie…

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If there’s one celebrity who has had a love-hate relationship with her fluctuating weight and the amount of tabloid exposure it’s generated (no, it’s not Oprah), it’s Kirstie Alley. The actress has had a very public battle with her yo-yoing weight but it seems 2010 will be a good year for her – since the start of the New Year she’s lost 6 pounds.

The former Fat Actress star told her followers on Twitter that she’s going to stay motivated by putting up pictures of what she looked like when she was thinner and healthier on her fridge and in her car.

“My trainer told me to stick pics of myself the way I like to look on my fridge and in my car… I am looking for those today. Good idea!”

She’s even goaded The National Enquirer, mentioning them by name in a Twitter update saying she lost 6 pounds in 11 days. These days the 59-year-old Emmy Award winner is tackling her overweight problem with a healthy diet and salsa dancing, and enjoying definitely it.

“SALSA SALSA SALSA…..ARRRIBBAAA… now THIS is my kinda workout!!! love love love!!”

I’m definitely routing for Kirstie this year!

Yet another weight related reality show will enter TV land. (Sigh)  With shows like Biggest Loser, Dance Your Ass Off and The Price of Beauty, it’s no surprise that former Jenny Craig spokesperson Kirsty Alley will get her own show. The 59-year-old yo-yo dieter has signed on with A&E for a yet to be titled show of 10 half-hour episodes. You may recall in 2005 her short-lived Showtime series Fat Actress, but that was a scripted show. This new reality show will be a first for Alley. Robert Sharenow, the senior VP for nonfiction/alternative programming said,

“Her personal life has been playing out in the media for years, but this will be the first time she’ll be opening up her home to reveal her real life for the cameras.”

Over the past summer Kirsty did confess that she gained 83 pounds but she was ready to get back on track. Latest tabloid photos of her show no change in her size but maybe the show will motivate her.

A couple of months ago Kirstie Alley gave both magazine and television interviews where she confessed that she felt she let people down after having gained all of her weight back that she previously lost while on the Jenny Craig diet.  After the Jenny Craig stint ended in 2007, Kirstie admitted to throwing out her home gym equipment and got back on to old eating habits.

“My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter. If I’m at the movies, usually I eat popcorn without butter, but I’d say, ‘I’m at the movies, so who cares?’ And toast with butter. There was a lot of butter going on.”

She even said that this time she was going to do it right, lose the weight on her own and later not just reveal a new body but also her own weight loss product.  However, when she was spotted last week at the Los Angeles airport (see photo above) it looks as if she hasn’t lost any weight yet.  Earlier that day she twittered,

“What to pack? what to wear today?  Does my ass look big without clothes? who are you NOT wearing on the red carpet? makes life so much easier.”

She then wrote,

“OH YES and I will be investing in the SPRAY TAN industry…and necklaces.”

That all doesn’t make a lot of sense, but then nor does it make sense that this woman who is such a great actress and comedian can’t seem to get a grasp on her health.

“I’m ready to work. I messed up along the way, but I’m not going to concentrate on that. I’m gonna go, “You know what? Get back on the horse, lose the freakin’ weight, and then just move forward!”

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Back in 2007, it was Kirstie Alley who brought Valerie Bertinelli on board as a new spokesperson for the Jenny Craig Diet.  But now the tables have turned and it’s Bertinelli who looks like a bikini bombshell and Alley has confessed to having gained 83 pounds.  When Alley saw her friend’s swimsuit photos for People Magazine she said,

“She didn’t just look good – she looked stunning! It was inspiring.  It’s like the student surpassed the teacher, who is now over there in the corner, fat!”

Valerie Bertinelli responded to her comments and said that it was nonsense and that Alley’s weight gain

“is just a bump in the road. Nothing in life goes smoothly all the time,” she continues to say that Alley is “a mentor and a motivator. She’s part of the reason I’ve come this far.”

Bertinelli then went on to say that she and Alley should work together as she knows the dedication required and that she too has to stay motivated now that she has already lost her weight and wants to keep it off.  Bertinelli said,

“She should come work out with me!  She should remember you can’t do everything in one day [and] her exercise has to be consistent. She can do this. There’s no doubt in my mind. I’m still on the journey and still keeping my fingers crossed.  I am one jalapeño pepper away from gaining 40 pounds. It’s not simple! It’s something you work on every day.”

The media is all over Kirstie Alley’s latest weight gain.  In just a couple of weeks time she’s been on the Oprah show and had her face splattered across tabloids.  She also gave an interview with People Magazine where she graces the cover and quotes,

“Yes, I gained 83 pounds.”

Well, there’s no hiding that.  During the interview she recalled the first time she weighed herself again after 15 months and she was shocked at what the scales revealed.

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

She went on to explain how she had let herself go again once she finished her contract with Jenny Craig.

“It started with New Year’s [2008], right after leaving Jenny Craig. When you’re a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, there’s responsibility. You have a person every week standing over you when you get on the scale, and I did it naked because those panties could weigh 30 lbs.! It was amazingly successful. But the first nail in the coffin was that I didn’t have to weigh in. I just sort of went wild.”

She also explained that this time when she gained weight it was different than the other times when she had a big sweet tooth.

“My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter. A lot of butter. If I’m at the movies, usually I eat popcorn without butter, but I’d say, “I’m at the movies, so who cares?” And toast with butter. Or let’s say I had two cups of pasta and six tablespoons of butter on it. There was a lot of butter going on.” she continues, “For seven months I was a vegetarian, and I can’t tell you how much weight I gained being a vegetarian! A vegetarian would probably be eating vegetables. But to me being a vegetarian meant I’m going to eat enchiladas with no meat, and I’m going to eat lots of bread, lots of carbs.”

Now she is back on the diet bandwagon and is trying to lose the weight once again and get back to a bikini baring body.

“I have to be below 140 to really look good. I have to work my legs like crazy. Actually, do you want my real goal? My real goal’s always too low. I love the way I look at, like, 128. One time on Cheers, I weighed about 148 lbs., and they told me to lose, like, 20 lbs. Now, I’m 5′8″, so at 148 lbs., I wasn’t fat. But they’re saying, ‘You know, you need to lose 20 lbs.’ So what does that put me at? 128. That’s where I keep getting this number.”

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It’s time to review the good, the bad and the ugly in celeb diets of 2008. First a brief recap of 2007. The picks for 2007 were for the most part right on. As predicted, Kirstie Alley did in fact fall off the wagon with Jenny Craig. No surprise, Ricki Lake continues to shine with her remarkable weight loss success as she adopted some key weight loss behaviors. Capping a remarkable turnaround for 2008, Britney went from the worst celebrity diet list of 2007 to the best celebrity diet list this year proving that you are what you eat.

This brings me to theme for the year in celebrity diets of 2008, specifically that “diets don’t work.” The key to sustainable weight loss is not so much a particular diet but the adoption of the proper lifestyle behaviors. It’s the reason why Oprah can’t achieve sustainable weight loss despite trying multiple diets and having all the resources in the world (personal chef, trainer, Dr Oz etc).

You’ll also noticed that this year’s winners all have one thing in common as they develop their new lifestyle dietary behaviors. They achieved their remarkable slim downs by increasing their intake of veggies and fruits. No crazy fasts, diet pills, supplements or miracle cures. Here’s to 2009 and hopefully you’ll find some inspiration from this year’s crop of winners. Enjoy and be healthy, Dr Marc

Best Celebrity Diets for 2008:
5. Jennifer Love Hewitt: Those unflattering bikini photos seem so long ago as this Ghost Whisperer star has been letting her body speak loud and clear; daily fruits and veggies do a body good.

4. Jessica Alba: Jessica exercised her superhero abilities on a regimen of whole foods, cardio and interval training to power her fantastic 25 pound post-pregnancy slim down.

3. Debra Messing: Eating gracefully, Debra lost 42 pounds of her post-baby weight by sticking to a diet high in unprocessed veggies, fruits and lean protein.

2. Kelly Osbourne: By fixing her refined carb cravings with her new addiction to veggies and fruits, Kelly Osbourne is reborn with a healthy new figure.

1. Britney Spears: Since ditching her “Toxic” junk food diet for veggies and lean protein, Britney is sporting a new outlook and an A-list slim down that has everyone wanting “A Piece of Me.”

And the Worst Celebrity Diets for 2008:
5. Carnie Wilson: Carnie proves that even gastric bypass is not a fix for sabotaging behaviors. Despite her much publicized surgery and weight loss, this Celebrity Fit Club participant regained 58 pounds. (Her yo-yo dieting continues; she most recently lost 50 pounds before her current pregnancy.)

4. Monica Seles: This former tennis star may have lost 33 pounds on a high protein diet but she also increased her risk of chronic disease. Advantage: heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis.

3. Hilary Swank: 47 ways to sub-optimal health. Reportedly downing 47 “million dollar” supplements a day, this Million Dollar Baby star is unwittingly subjecting her body to accelerated aging.

2. Kim Kardashian: Kim has kept her shapely “junk in the trunk” figure with exercise and a gig on Dancing with The Stars. However, her junk food diet will inevitably cause… too much junk.

1. Oprah Winfrey: The queen of media and yo-yo dieter is the poster child for “diets don’t work.” Proper weight loss behaviors and habits should be one of Oprah’s “favorite things.”