Star Jones Finally Admits That Her Stomach Is Not Naturally The Size Of A Walnut

From the “no shit, Sherlock” department, Star Jones Reynolds is finally confessing what anyone with half an eye and a brain cell already knew: that her 70 kilogram weight loss was due to gastric bypass surgery. After spending years denying that she went that route, in an upcoming Glamour column Star seems to gloss over the magnitude of that whole messy lying in favour of playing the insecurity card:

Why the delay in speaking up? “First, I didn’t know if the surgery would work,” she writes in the first-person essay. “I had spent my entire adult life telling everyone that I was fine with the way I looked. I never thought I’d have to explain it.

“But the complete truth is, I was scared of what people might think of me.”

“Every day I am learning to let go of my insecurities and acknowledge that I don’t have all the answers, which is okay,” she writes. Though she still struggles with self-image, she writes that being healthy is what counts. “I’m not saying that in order to be happy, women need to be a certain size, but I am saying that we should all strive to be healthy.” [...]

After undergoing her surgery, the Court TV host said she didn’t expect so much public scrutiny. So, she says, she sidestepped reports that she had undergone the treatment despite rapidly losing upwards of 70 kilograms over three years.

It’s certainly understandable that Star would be surprised at the attention. After all, she was being paid to yap for a living on a high-profile talk show, and she had just staged a lavish, greedy wedding she wouldn’t shut up about; given all that, why would anyone wonder how the equivalent of Joy Behar melted off her frame? Still, this column is good for one thing: We can’t wait to hear how Rosie eviscerates this through her signature disjointed haiku. May we suggest: “star / surgery made you skinny / but ur still a big fat liar inside / suck it.”

• Star Jones: I Had Gastric Bypass Surgery [People.com]