Kirstie Alley Says She Lost 100 lbs, Is Size Four… Tim Gunn Calls Her A Liar
September 19, 2011 by Hollywoodite
Kirstie Alley has been giving the media weekly updates on every pound of her supposed weight loss since Dancing With The Stars. She initially claimed she was size 14. Soon after, she claimed to be size 6, then a “stretchy four.” She took a break from lying only to return and credit her “religion” for her weight loss. Alley endorses a Scientology-backed diet plan, the same one she’s now crediting for a 100 lbs loss.
Hmm…
Last week, she told Entertainment Tonight, “I’ve lost 100 pounds… feel like I’m back in my element, I honestly didn’t even realize what I looked like. Before Dancing with the Stars, I bought these dresses from size 14 to 4. [They were] all the same dress, and I said, ‘You know what I really want? I really wanna be in this dress in a 4! [And now I’m size four]. I haven’t had plastic surgery but here’s the reason: People do plastic surgery to make you look younger. I don’t think it makes you look younger. I like it can make you look weirder.”
She lost 100 lbs through some random, Scilon-approved diet plan that she’s shilling on her website. Okay then. And she bought a closet of the same outfits so she could pick decreasing sizes as an ego-boost? Who does that?
She claimed back in May to be wearing small, stretchy sizes. And now it would seem she’s able to buy things without the elastic waistband.
Not according to Tim Gunn, though. He pretty much called Alley a liar, implying that she’s vanity-sizing and delusion.
“When Kirstie Alley revealed in an Entertainment Tonight clip that she has lost 100 pounds since being on Dancing with the Stars and is down to a size 4, Tim Gunn raised a perfectly groomed, silver eyebrow.
In an interview with Tampa radio station 98.7 FM, the Project Runway star shed some light on the actress’ size claim saying, “There is a phenomenon out there right now that I call the lying deceptive shell game of vanity sizing. In fact a 4 is really a 6 or an 8.”
The chief creative director for Liz Claiborne explained his theory, which was based on an experiment he did at Parsons. “We took a size 8 dress from 1980 one from 1990 and one from 2000 and compared them — the difference between them was two and a half inches in the waist alone!” said Gunn. As for Alley’s true size, the fashion guru guesses that she’s between a size 8 and a 10. “But she looks fabulous,” he added. “People are too size conscious.” – via Us Weekly.
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