In an episode on Oprah, Star Jones told about her weight loss and the things she went through. In 2006, she said, she didn’t undergo gastric bypass surgery to take the easy way out but did it because her weight was seriously affecting her health. Her doctor had even said that it was she was going to die. She admitted that she was an addict to eating and even though she knew it would affect her health she could not bring herself to stop.
“I’m still 300 pounds in my head some days,” she said to Oprah Winfrey and said she was afraid of disappointing people and ashamed that she wasn’t able to control her weight.
About her addiction she said“… I was an addict for all practical purposes, that I had never stuck to a real diet, that I’d never stuck to a real exercise program, and that when confronted by my doctor and the doctor said if you don’t make changes, you will die. I had no choice. When you hear people say, oh, you took the easy way out, I would have longed for an easy way. It was not an easy way. It was this — the hardest struggle of my whole entire life and I still struggle.”
She was in the show ‘The View’ and had to exit it. It was said that after the surgery, the audience didn’t relate to her anymore. She was hurt a lot but she said after she admitted to the surgery she was disliked less.
