Star Jones to come clean about weight loss

Star Jones to open up about weight loss

Former ‘View’ co-host to address slim-down questions in magazine piece

The Associated Press
July 16, 2007

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Star Jones Reynolds says she will address
speculation about her dramatic weight loss in a story for Glamour
magazine.

“I wrote an article because I really wanted to go as in-depth as
possible about the way I’ve changed physically over the last 10 years
on the air,” Reynolds, 45, said recently while promoting her new Court
TV (soon to be truTV) talk show. “And I thought that that would be the
most effective way to answer everybody’s questions.”

Her article, “Getting Over Myself,” will be featured in the September
issue, on newsstands Aug. 7, a representative for Glamour said Monday.

Reynolds, who has said she had medical intervention for her weight,
said she has no qualms about viewing photos of when she was very
heavy.

“I actually like seeing the old pictures because what it says to me
is, ‘You never allow yourself to get there again,”’ she told
reporters, according to AP Radio News. “It was dangerous to me. Very
dangerous. I was killing myself.”

Reynolds, who married banker Al Reynolds in 2004, decided to use her
maiden name as the title of her afternoon talk show, which premieres
Aug. 20.

“Star Jones Reynolds makes dinner for her husband every night. She’s
the wife. I’m the working woman,” she said.


Court TV has said Reynolds’ show will be about criminal justice issues
that intersect with the pop culture world. It’s a return to her roots
for Reynolds, a lawyer who began her TV career as a legal commentator
on Court TV in 1991. She was an original co-host on ABC’s “The View,”
starting in 1997, where she became acquainted with the glitz and
glamour of show biz. She left the daytime talk show last year.

Reynolds says she would like to talk with Rosie O’Donnell, another
former “View” co-host, who has criticized her for skirting the subject
of rumored stomach surgery.

“I don’t have any reason to not want to sit down and chat with her,”
Reynolds said. “She’s smart, she’s funny, she’s in your face — that’s
the kind of guest you want on the show.”