I'm smelling publicity for her new show...Why come out about the truth now? Everyone and their Mother already KNEW she had the surgery...why come out about it now...oh b/c you have a new show and want to be 'truthful and honest' with your fan...


Star Jones Reynolds says in a new interview that her dramatic weight-loss was due to gastric-bypass surgery, and that she dodged questions about it for years because she was "scared of what people might think of me."

Reynolds, 45, says she was "intentionally evasive" when people asked how she'd dropped 160 pounds in three years. The former "View" co-host opens up about her weight loss and self-esteem issues in a story featured in the September issue of Glamour magazine, on newsstands Aug. 7.

"Everything about me was already so public (mostly my own doing talk about dumb!), so of course everyone wanted to know what I had done," she writes. "I was also terrified someone would have a tragic result after emulating me without making an informed decision with her doctor."

"But the complete truth is, I was scared of what people might think of me," she continues. "I was afraid to be vulnerable, and ashamed at not being able to get myself under control without this procedure."

Keeping her decision private made her a hypocrite, she says, because she had been so outspoken about her firing from ABC's "The View" last year.

Reynolds, who weighed 307 pounds at her heaviest, says her "out-of-control behavior" began around her 40th birthday in 2002. Feeling lonely, she turned to food for comfort and gained 75 pounds over the course of 17 months. She had the procedure in August 2003.

"I used to look in the mirror and take pride in my figure, but that was when I was legitimately a full-figured woman," she says. "I'd gradually gone from full-figured to morbidly obese."

Reynolds opted for surgery after a friend expressed concern about her weight. It was a success, she says, though she found she was "still consumed with the same anger, shame and insecurity as before."

Her husband, banker Al Reynolds, encouraged her to begin psychological therapy in the summer of 2005. She learned, among other things, that she "couldn't control what others thought," she says. She began to heal by talking openly about her weight loss to strangers.

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Sounds like a publicity stunt to me. Why would you be embarassed about that?? Did Al Roucker have this done and wasn't he very public about it and didn't the public take it very well???

The way I see it...at least she did something to better herself, regardless of the way she did it. Some people won't even do that.

Ya, I figured she started looking around and realized that she wasn't on the covers of magazines anymore and she needed to come out with something to get a little press.

I'm in absolute shock!

You're my kinda sarcastic Amy!

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I say she's addicted to her pain pills, too. By the end of her time on the view she seemed so out of it.

LOL Did I overdo it?

Gee really? Amy I love it!

Personaly I think she looks creepy alien like with her new look. I for one don't see myself tuning into her new show.

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I really do not think it was a big deal that she would not say why she lost the wt.
You have to asume that it was thru surgury- I think when she said everyone is different and should talk to there own Drs. about how to lose wt she was right. That surgury is not for everyone.

I agree with the person who said she looks creepy now. I find her appearance gaunt and skeletal, kind of like junkies get. She looks weird like that. I think she should gain about 15 pounds to round out her face a little (not gain weight to be fat like before, just she's gone too far with the loss IMO).