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After marrying her high school sweetheart Robert Alley, Kirstie left
Wichita, Kansas to work as an interior designer in Los Angeles. She landed her
first acting gig playing a Vulcan officer Lieutenant Saavik in Star Trek
II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and followed up with a series of TV movies
and occasional films until she got her next major break replacing Shelly
Long on the TV series Cheers from 1987 to 1993 playing
the new bar manager, Rebecca Howe.
She divorced Robert and married former Hardy Boy/Baywatch actor
Parker Stevenson whom she memorably thanked "for giving me the big one
for the last eight years" when she won her Emmy for Cheers
as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
in 1991 .But Parker's "big one"
proved to be worth $6 million which Kirstie was forced to pay him in
"Galimony" when they divorced in 1997 and Parker sued "sufficient support"
to "maintain a lifestyle commensurate to that which Kirstie and I had
enjoyed during our marriage" As one of Parker's girlfriends
calculated, the settlement was equivalent to $730,000 an inch.
It was after her divorce from Parker that Kristie's addictive behavior
started to become food-related. She had successfully battled cocaine
addiction by joining Church of Scientology and
going through Narconon, a Scientology-affiliated drug treatment
program. But there were no Scientology food-addiction treatment center and
soon Kirstie ballooned up to about 230 lbs and decided to launch her
own TV reality show, Fat Actress (2005-2006). Then, in lieu of
Scientology, Kirstie latched on the Jenny Craig system and began to shed most of
her weight though diet and exercise which including some
extensive dance moves which she credited helping her shed some of the
pounds. Kirstie told Oprah Winfrey that in between sets with exercise equipment, "I dance
really hard. And then I dance at the end for about 20 minutes. I do this
anywhere from four to six times a week. And then I pretend like I'm
Muhammad Ali at a disco."
But without "the
big one," she soon put on another 83 pounds and tuned that weight gain into a
Weight Loss Reality Show called
Kirstie Alley's Big Life.
After dropping about 30 pounds, she was signed to appear in 2011's Dancing
with the Stars to show off her weight-loosing dance moves. She continued
dancing her fat off until she lost 100 lbs and walked the runway at
the 2011 New York Fashion Week.
The big
question is whether we see the fat go away again, or see the fat back?
So we suggest celebrating her birthday with fatback clams as a tasty
reminder of plumper days and watching Kirstie in her pointy-eared glory in Star Trek
II: The Wrath of Khan.
Unless you live in the Southern United
States, you may not be acquainted with fatback which is
a cut of pork from the
back of a pig. Although similar to bacon,
fatback
contains a miniscule of or absolutely no meat, and in uncooked form resembles
all-white bacon strips. Fatback is generally fried into crispy strips
called cracklings and is often used
to cook and flavor collard greens.
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