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Star Jones

lines on the record: 37
first: 2023-06-20
most recent: 2023-06-20
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“I felt so good. I felt so good that I could walk those stairs. And do I regret not being strong enough to share everything right away? Yes. But would I take it back? No, because I'm healthy here today. Because I did it that way”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm healthy. I can breathe. I can walk upstairs. The elevator went out in my building. And I live on the 10th floor and three years ago, I took a hotel room because I couldn't walk up the stairs when the elevator went out. When it went out in the last year, I walked the stairs. And when I got to the top, It was like the biggest accomplishment.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You don't have to be as loud. I don't have to be as loud. I don't have to be as boisterous. I don't have to be the center of attention.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On an airplane recently, I went into the bathroom to change because I had to give a speech at the other end and wouldn't have time to change. And this gentleman said, you got into that dress, in that bathroom, in an admiring way. And I thought to myself, that had never happened before in my life.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, Albert, when you have gastric bypass, they insist you see a bunch of different doctors, one of which is a therapist. They don't insist you keep up with the therapy, which they probably should. So you only have to see them once to get approved. The therapist said to me, You're not going to have any problem following the program. You're not going to have any problem doing what you're supposed to do because you've made up your mind. Your biggest problem is going to be how you respond to others reacting to the new you. And that was the first and only session they got me right away. And they were right. I had never had a guy ogle me in that way.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I will spend it over, and they shot me from the side, and I remember putting that swimsuit on that morning and how happy I felt when I put it on. I remember it like it was yesterday and they could reduce such a wonderful moment to something horrible. And I was so depressed, but I didn't eat.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, no, I went to the grocery store and I was buying what really ticked me off was I had all these vegetables in the cart and mushrooms and I was going to make a fresh dinner and it was so wonderful. And I walked up to the checkout stand and on the front cover is me in an unflattering position.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I was 300 pounds, you couldn't hide anything. There's nothing worse than being 150 pounds and then having a little pocket right here and having a tabloid take a picture of it and put it on the front.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know, but what was I going to do? Stay in the house? It was hot. So I wore That's why I couldn't believe we were wearing”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As I went through, I got down to 200 pounds and then I started cardio. And I've added things in. The arms come from a little tennis. And keeping up with some weight. I'm not obsessive. I don't want anybody to think that you have to pay a whole lot for gym membership. As long as I want you to...”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I couldn't get through too much less 100. I mean, remember, I was still eight weeks out, so I'd lost maybe 25 pounds. But still, you know, 280 something pounds. I was just too big, and I wouldn't quit. I did it five days a week. I wouldn't quit. I was too heavy to start with the treadmills and all that. And I knew I wasn't going to stick with that. So I did something that at least encouraged me. And as I did it, I remember my gym pants started to fall off a little bit. And I started to cry because I knew it was working.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the skin went right back. After the first eight weeks after the surgery, Oprah, I. Couldn't lift my legs. There's an exercise that you do called the hundreds where you lift yourself and you're here.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, actually the only surgery that I've ever had afterwards was I couldn't get rid of the stomach, the full stomach. I'd gotten rid of all of the fat, but I couldn't get rid of the skin here. So adomoplasty, which is commonly referred to as a tummy tuck. That was, because that's also not a healthy thing to have skin hanging here. And then for vanity's sake, I had the boobs lifted because they went like pancakes. And that's for vanity's sake because nobody needed to have them lifted. They make enough bras, Victoria's secret to lift them. But I lifted them. And that's it. I mean, I've not done anything on the arms. I've not had to do anything on my legs.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, the first 75 pounds is directly attributable to the surgery. But remember, I had 160 to lose. And the doctor recommended that I do Pilates or some sort of stretching yoga class immediately after I recovered.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You lose another whole person and you try to find your way, at least I have. You try to find out who the authentic you is inside of you. And then you accept every single thing. The blemishes and all. I don't try to be perfect. Like I said to you, I woke up with anxiety this morning and then I got rid of it because I said, I'm going to just be me.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And more secure that I could step out of the shell and not feel like I needed to accept anything. I needed to be my true self. And that's where I am now. And I'm learning every single day. There's some new stuff to learn every single day.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had the surgery way before I met my ex-husband. And I told him right away. But as I lost weight, I changed. There was less of me to hold.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. I mean, I had a boyfriend. I would have people who were attracted to me, but it was never with Is never with desire And it was nice as I changed to experience it.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have never even thought about that. I think I would have because I was very happy and what was attractive was still going to be attractive. But I was a different kind of woman to date. I was your fun, smart, witty. Life of the party kind of girl. I was never the one that you would go, that's what I'm talking about. I had never had those kinds of experiences. With men”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On the day of the surgery, you walk in and you get up on the table yourself. So I was weighed and it is the biggest, most industrialized scale you have ever seen. It is as if they were weighing meat or livestock. And I said to myself, I swear an oath to God if I make it through this surgery, I will never see something like this again.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I was. I didn't know who I was going to be. I had no idea. Since I'm 18 years old, I've never worn anything that started with a one. I wore a size 20, a size 22, a size 24, a size 26. So I didn't even know who I was going to be. I don't think that people understand what 300 pounds means. That's Shaquille O'Neill, and he running up and down the basketball court. He's seven foot 900. I mean, it's huge. And I was the same weight. So for me, emotionally. I knew that I had to lose the weight, but I didn't realize I should do therapy. And that's what I did. I got into very intense therapy, and I started to lose the weight here. And then I felt like I could talk about it. I remember”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The harder thing was admitting that I was selling a bill of goods for those years, those last years. I didn't want to talk about it at all.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Over that would have been the easiest thing in the world is to say it was gastric bypass. I mean, I can give you chapter and verse about the surgery.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had no choice. When you hear people say, Oh, you took the easy way out, I would have longed for an easy way. It was not an easy way. It was the hardest struggle of my whole entire life. And I still struggled. I wish that I had the strength and the courage to have faced my own demons so that I could have allowed someone to help me. That's really where it was. I didn't have that courage. If I had been stronger, then I could have let people in.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Once you say that worst part And that's what I think I did in pushing people away. And I think the audience felt that they were being pushed away also. But it wasn't, I didn't need to hide. And I really felt I did. I was ashamed. That was a shame. That's a 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, and that when confronted by my doctor, and the doctor said, if you don't make changes, you will die.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why didn't talk about it? The people who were in my life, they all knew, I mean, I went to them individually and told them what I was doing. A lot of people were scared because the surgery is a drastic step. But publicly, I had refused to talk about it. And I mean refused to talk about it. And people who loved me and I knew they loved me and had my best interests at heart would say, star, it's not a bad thing. You can admit it and I couldn't. I just put my head in the sand. I was defiant. I actually had friends, one group of friends, quote, advisors sit in a room with me. And when I was writing a book, they said, you should say it here. This is a great opportunity. And these are the people who loved me and wanted the best.”
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“I learned that, but I would not be telling you the truth if I didn't tell you it still scared me. Is that what you're saying?”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Disappointing people. You, when I was a little kid and I would get chastised by my parents, I longed for whipping instead of hearing my mother say, you have disappointed me. And if I disappoint you, I feel like a failure.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm still 300 pounds in my head some days. This morning I was a little off kilter. I was a little late getting up and I'm always up at 6 a.m. But I realized that we were going to talk about this and it scared me a bit”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Do you know this is the first time since I've been doing television that I've worn my natural nails because I'm confident enough to not need big long acrylics?”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Everybody Every main thing Noticed what it felt like when People said, Oh, you're so pretty. Gosh, if you'd only be able to lose a little weight, I used to pretend that it didn't matter to me. I think that's that boisterous, loud, overcompensating star that some people came to know and love and some people came to say, oh, please get out of my way.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was completely faking it. And it took me a long time to admit it to myself, and it's probably what scared me the most why I didn't talk about it is I was really ashamed that I didn't have the courage that I had always said I did. I mean, I could stand a murderer down in a courtroom”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I now know I was very depressed. I was lonely and I didn't know how to say I'm lonely. It's one thing that I have learned in doing a bunch of research and self-analysis. That we in our community are ashamed sometimes to admit that our emotional health needs some help And I think that was the biggest thing. I was by myself and it was my most successful year.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I stopped watching. And I stopped listening. When I first got on the show, people would send notes and some would be cruel, but for the most part, people would be supportive. Yeah. You're my girl. I was a girl's girl and a guy's best friend, so it was okay. And then as I got bigger and bigger, the male turned nastier or concerned. We can hear you breathe. Was a lot of the male. My crew was so kind that they would try to put the microphone as far away so that you would hear me do that.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You sort of start to think about food differently because for the first eight weeks, you're going to be in a liquid diet. And so you want to make sure that you're not eating, you know, my favorite thing, double whoppers, beforehand. Even though you want to have a last meal. I read that you love me.”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I first started on television. I was between 210 and 220. By the time I had the gastric bypass, I was 307. Know the number for that day. I bet I was a little bit heavier at some point. Because you know you start a process of losing weight”
2023-06-20 · The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast · Losing Weight In The Public Eye With Star Jones, Valerie Bertinelli And Marie Osmond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a difference between being happy when you're full figured. When you're morbidly obese I had given the audience full figured star full blast. And when it changed to morbidly obese star, didn't have the courage to let that mask down.”
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