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    Posted by Cohen on April 8, 2009 | Categories: Star Jones

    Star Jones found it difficult to talk about her 2003 gastric bypass but Oprah helped her handle the situation. Star initially lied about how she lost 160 pounds. On Oprah, she finally apologized to her “View” colleagues for not telling the truth about how she lost her weight. The talk show host eased her apprehensions about coming clean.

    “I had a great time, and the best part about doing it with Oprah is she’s the very best interviewer,” Jones, 46, told Usmagazine.com Monday at the 2009 Skating with the Stars event in NYC. “She puts you in a safe and wonderful environment, and you really don’t feel the need to have to discuss it ever again because you can say, ‘Go to the videotape.’”

    Jones told Us it was tough “absolutely opening my heart to somebody else.” But Winfrey has experienced “the same kind of [weight] issues. When you’re sitting across from someone who has had similar experiences, it’s so much easier.”

    “And so we said we were going to open it all up, and I think that’s what most people felt,” she added. “There were no doors closed, there’s no apprehension [when] you’re talking to Oprah.” [Source]

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    Star Jones opens up about gastric bypass on Oprah

    Posted by AldenS on April 1, 2009 | Categories: Star Jones, weight

    Star Jones in bikini

    Star Jones has finally apologized for how she handled her exit from “The View” a few years back. Star, who was reticent to come clean about her gastric bypass surgery, admitted that she put her co-stars in an awkward position when she started dropping weight and attributing her success to strict diet and exercise.

    “I’m so sorry that I placed a burden on my colleagues. I never asked them to lie and don’t know where the Pilates and portion control” — an explanation for her weight-loss that made the rounds at the time — “came from. I think a tabloid actually wrote that.”

    Jones, who shed a whopping 160 pounds after the 2003 surgery, has always been reluctant to discuss her weight, saying the prospect of talking about her body on national television “scared me a bit.”

    Pressed by Winfrey about what scared her, Jones responds, “Disappointing people. I was ashamed … That’s the word that is actually the real word. I was ashamed that I couldn’t control my weight, that I was an addict for all practical purposes, that I had never stuck to a real diet, that I’d never stuck to a real exercise program.”

    Losing the weight may have drastically changed Jones‘ appearance, but she reveals that on some days, she still feels obese on the inside.

    “I’m still 300 lbs. in my head some days.” [Source]

    If Star wasn’t such an egomaniac, I would probably feel bad for her. At the very least, I sympathize and wish we didn’t put so damned much emphasis on being scary-skinny in this country. Perhaps then Jones wouldn’t have felt the need to lie.

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