Kirsty Alley

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39 minutes ago, Gusto said:

She said she started gaining after Cheers ended in 1993...

She gained a noticeable amount of weight during her run on "Cheers." To the point that it was even written into the plot of an episode or two.

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11 hours ago, Gusto said:

12 hours ago, riptoryx said:

She gained a noticeable amount of weight during her run on "Cheers." To the point that it was even written into the plot of an episode or two.

Wow so she was in her thirties when she started gaining? Nice!

I'm pretty sure she even mentioned a bit in interviews around the time the final episode of "Cheers" aired, but it's difficult to find stuff of that vintage online.

Still, here's an article from 2005 that discusses some references she made about weight issues during the "Cheers" run: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3644253/I-always-thought-I-was-too-fat-to-have-sex.html

I've pasted the most relevant snippet below.

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Kirstie Alley tells John Hiscock how she learnt to laugh at her weight

It is the summons every TV actress in Hollywood dreads - the call to the network executive's office to be told: "You're putting on weight. You have to lose it, otherwise…"

It happened to Kirstie Alley twice, when she was in the long-running series Cheers, in which she played barmaid Rebecca Howe, and later in her own series, Veronica's Closet. But unlike other actresses who, after receiving the "shake the weight" warning, throw themselves into diet-and-exercise programmes, Alley kept on eating.

She eventually ate herself out of a job and off TV. Before too long, her only exposure to the public was via unflattering paparazzi shots in gossip magazines showing her eating chips or coming out of fast-food restaurants.

It was distressing at the time but, looking back, she humorously describes the stages of denial and ultimate acceptance she went through. "I'm tall so I could trick myself into thinking I could carry it off," she says. "I could look at myself a certain way and say, 'Your waist is little,' or 'You look good from this angle,' but eventually I ran out of angles and then I was done for." She can laugh now because she is probably the first woman to defy Hollywood's strict demand for slimness and emerge triumphant.