Crap, forgot the 'more inside' thingy. Sorry.

Yeah, she's influenced me in that every time I see her, I think of the SNL skit and laugh.

I'm just amused that the URL contains the word "plugger."

If there is one thing that Star Jones inspires, it is love. We all need love, especially during the holidays. That is why I think everyone at Metachat could use a copy of my book Love Smart. Do you think Pretty_Generic would be in such a mess right now if someone had given him this book?

Remember - don't love dumb. Love Smart!

I was almost inspired to provide my email address to read "about" Star Jones at her website. Then I realized that I needed to go water my horse.

So I didn't.

I needed to go bleed my lizard so I didn't either.

Star Jones has taught me that it's ok to be fat until you can afford not to be.

PS: Hi everybody!

This is the only thing I know about Star Jones.

Chuck Norris told me Star Jones has AIDS.

Who is Star Jones? Or, is this something I would need a television to know about?

Yes.

Star Jones has taught me that losing weight can result in becoming WAY less attractive.

And so I eat this cookie.

jrossi- Halle-freakin'-lujah. I hadn't seen pictures of her recently, but man. I feel like I should eat some Ben & Jerry's in her honor. If that's what skinny looks like, she can keep it.

Dr. Phil is such a tool.

She has become SO FRIGHTENING looking. Add that to being obnoxious..... oh man I can't stand her.

Star Jones ate my dog.

She has become SO FRIGHTENING looking.

Yeah, it's really sort of sad. Although I always found her obnoxious I thought that she was a really beautiful woman. I hated all the fat bashing she took, especially when there was so much more about her that was truly annoying and worthy of mocking. I was channel surfing the other day and caught a few seconds of The View (I can only take several seconds of The View before the urge to kill rises) and was shocked at how haggard she looked.

The whole "she has such a pretty face--if only she'd lose weight!" concept has been blown out of the water.

I read a quote somewhere, I think it was Catherine Deneuve, and the gist of it was that at a certain age a woman has to choose between her ass and her face. Carry a few extra pounds to keep your wrinkles plumped or hope your rockin' bod distracts people from your crags.

Again, I eat a cookie.

at a certain age a woman has to choose between her ass and her face.

It was Jane Fonda. I think she said "body" instead of "ass," and I think this was said during her bulimic buy-into-my-workout-empire phase. She did, however, choose an ass, and his name was Ted Turner.

...and now I know the rest of the story.

I was just thinking about this the other day as I thought about how we shrink and wrinkle when we get old. I found myself thinking of my great-grandmother who died in 1987 at 84 who wasn't fat, certainly, but she was pleasantly rotund in that grandmotherly way. She didn't look terribly old at 85. Her daughter, my maternal grandmother who I adored, died at 82 in 2002 and she looked very bad. She had Alzheimer's in the last six years of her life and in general her health declined very rapidly. But she had always been a beauty her whole life and from 40 on had always looked at least ten years younger than her age. The way she looks in that photo she didn't start looking until maybe she was about 74. Before that, she looked just over 50. Of course, she had several face-lifts, I believe, and I think that how badly her face looked at 80 is because of this. My paternal grandmother is still alive and she's a bit over eighty. She looks very old but she's looked old since she was 50. But she's always been, like my other grandmother, pretty skinny. So I think putting on a few pound works better when you're older, for women at least.

Well, you can tell Dame Ellis that I think she's still quite the dish.