Star Jones Admits to Surgery
If you believed that Star Jones Reynolds went from "full-figured" to "lollipop head" in a flash, with diet and exercise, raise your hand. Nobody? Bueller? Okay, me neither. But the former View co-host has finally decided to open up and admit the truth what we all knew already -- she had gastric bypass surgery. In an interview with Glamour, Star said she avoided questions about her weight loss because she was "scared of what people might think of me." "Everything about me was already so public (mostly my own doing - talk about dumb!), so of course everyone wanted to know what I had done," she writes. "I was also terrified someone would have a tragic result after emulating me without making an informed decision with her doctor." Star admitted that her food addiction had gotten out of control and caused her to gain 75lbs in 17 months. "I used to look in the mirror and take pride in my figure, but that was when I was legitimately a full-figured woman," she says. "I'd gradually gone from full-figured to morbidly obese." So she went under the knife in August of 2003 and has lost 160 lbs since. Though, just like my very smart friend Judy always tells me, changing your outside doesn't necessarily change how you feel on the inside, and Starr found that to be true. Though the weight was gone, she still felt "consumed with the same anger, shame and insecurity as before." And because there is no surgery for that, Star headed to therapy to deal with her issues and says she has finally begun to heal. Good for her. I hope she has learned that when you are in the public eye, and do something to yourself that is very easily noticed (like losing 160lbs), it's better just to come out and say so. We will have much more respect for you if you do.
