How to Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life: Reluctant Confessions of a Big-Butted Star

by Kirstie Alley and Kristie Alley

Book Overview

Dear Diary, Decided to write book today. Thought am good writer, am smart gal, have interesting sex-filled (lie) life. Thought can write about men, life, love, family, food, sex, and fat assedness.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159486232X
• ISBN13: 9781594862328
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

fun book

This is a fun book. Kirstie writes with a sharp wit and candor I found very entertaining. She jokes about herself and speaks with love & respect for her family, parents, and grandparents. Her food & weight issues are mentioned often. I really loved the story about her Grandfather paying her a dollar to spend Saturday night, watching the fights with him on TV, serving the then 6 year old Kirstie lightly salted beer in a "thimble" sized shot glass. I'm glad I bought this book so I can reread it whenever I want.

Very funny!!!

The book really is very witty and oftentimes insightful, but at the same time it gets tiresome to hear Alley continously wax romantic about her huge [...]! She is so much more than that, and while I think it took a tremendous amount of courage for her to just come out and say, "Hey, I am fat, now I am going to do something about it!" She need not forget that her being a smart, funny and beautifully vivacious woman, not to mention a true comedic talent has nothing to do with the size of her posterior.

A hilarious hunka love

Kirstie Alley's journey through public life has been joyous, celebratory and sometimes rough. Anyone who has opened a series of tabloids to see her own expanding butt featured as the centerfold deserves an air kiss, a hot fudge sundae and an AK-47 loaded for bear. Alley also deserves respect, however, for her work (very, very funny), her honesty and her willingness to plop her expanded arse down on the sofa next to you and tell it like it is. Yowza! What a relief! What a hoot! Wotta broad!

Really funny!

Things are looking up for Kirstie...successful show, deal with Jenny Craig, and who knew she could write? How to Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life is alternately hysterically funny and deeply touching, occassionaly managing to be both. Though some of her tales are a bit racy, if you're not easily offended it's refreshingly honest from a celebrity and surprisingly enjoyable writing.

Awesome

I loved her when she was thin and I loved her when she was fat. No matter how you look at Kirstie Alley, you will get the genuine article. No plastic Barbie doll here. Kirstie writes from her life in such an engaging way, I could really relate. I love the formatting she used. The diary notation at the top to set the stage for what came next. This is a real person! She is funny, poignant and down home. A great read that will leaving you laughing in some parts and shaking your head in agreement all the way through. (I preordered the book as soon as I read about it in the Good Housekeeping article about Kirstie.)