Kirstie Alley: I'm Only Eating 1,400 Calories a Day
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Just how much does a Dancing with the Stars contestant consume in a day that's ridden with seven hours of rehearsals? If you're Kirstie Alley, it's just 1,400 calories, a number she admitted to during rehearsal footage on Monday night's show.
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Since the beginning, the 60-year-old actress has had her eye on scoring a lower number on the scale as opposed to a big trophy in the end. "I have 30 or 40 more pounds to lose," the former Fat Actress star told Us Weekly back in March at the DWTS cast reveal. "I think with this strenuous, rigorous dance schedule, I think it's going to work."
It's no doubt that the former Jenny Craig spokeswoman has shed some serious pounds. Even judge Bruno Tonioli commented Monday that her "your body is shrinking; your talent is huge!"
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But even though Alley managed to score her first 10 in the competition Monday night, the actress' admittedly meager diet posed some concern for her partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
This week's rehearsal footage showed Alley taking a nasty spill from the stage, and though the star is no stranger to dancing mishaps, Chmerkovskiy advised that she "put a lid on the dieting" in fear that it could be affecting her performance and her overall health.
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The actress admitted that she's not eating enough or getting enough sleep, and has decided to take her partner's advice on upping her daily calorie count to 2,000.
“He’s probably right," the actress said after the show. "Usually what I do to lose weight, I eat 1,400 calories, but I guess if I’m working out five or seven hours then you have to change it around a little bit."
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5I agree with Elizabeth AND Jes. Women need to be happy with who they are, no matter what they look like. But on the flip side, you have to be okay with a woman wanting to be healthy. Kirstie Alley used to yo you diet and she did a metric f*$kton of cocaine in her day to stay skinny. She's not doing that now, she's trying to be at a healthy weight for her age and body to work properly and she's trying to do it in a healthy way.
Kirstie's whole idea of coming on Dancing With The Stars was to have fun and to shed the extra weight. She's not trying to be a thin rail, she's trying to get to a HEALTHY weight! She's 60, and I imagine she wants to live longer than a few more years... so shedding her weight WILL help her achieve a longer and healthier life. If you feel like sh!t about yourself, then DO something about it! I just joined the gym because I'm tired of being lazy. I'm going to have a heard time changing my diet because I'm a fussy eater and I love my Mc Donalds... but I want to be healthy.
@ Elizabeth... I HATE Sherri Shepherd's figure. To me, she's deformed.
The hair, the voice, this woman is still sexy.
I really wish Kirstie, Sherri Shepherd and every other woman on earth would SHUT THE F UP about how they look and what they weigh. Good lord, do you all really want something as stupid as looks to define who you are as a person? The more women sabotage themselves and each other by constantly focusing on their weight and clothes and makeup, the more the people in charge of producing products to make us feel like sh!t just sit back and laugh.