Kirstie Alley Talks About Her Most Recent Weight Gain of 83 Pounds

Kirstie Alley stepped on a scale for the first time in over a year recently, and the scene was not a happy one. Speaking with reporters from "People" magazine recently drinking her homemade concoction of fruit-infused water, Alley recalls, "I started screaming. It said 228 pounds, which is my highest weight ever. I was so much more disgusting that I thought!"

The story is part of the continued saga of weight gain and weight loss for the 58-year-old actress. As a spokeswoman for Jenny Craig for three years, Alley got her weight down to 145 lbs after losing 75 pounds and keeping the weight off. When she split from the company – and the diet – in 2007, she also stopped working out and admits, "I fell off the horse." The small, low-calorie portions that are the hallmarks of the Jenny Craig system, and which helped her keep her weight off, were a thing of the past, replaced by pasta, Chinese food and other high-calorie foods that are almost synonymous with weight gain.

Alley is again ready to lose the weight, however, and her new goal is to get down to 140 lbs. "I’m going to have to work harder than last time. I’m way excited." Speaking of her unfortunate trek back over the 200 lb. mark, Alley noted, "It started with New Year's [2008], right after leaving Jenny Craig. When you're a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, there's responsibility. You have a person every week standing over you when you get on the scale, and I did it naked because those panties could weigh 30 lbs.! It was amazingly successful. But the first nail in the coffin was that I didn't have to weigh in. I just sort of went wild."