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We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.
Star Jones
Family
,
Fight
,
May
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
Star Jones
Patience
,
Compassion
,
Learn
You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.
Star Jones
Strength
,
Spiritual
,
Emotional
And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.
Star Jones
Long
,
Big
,
Wanted
And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.
Star Jones
Light
,
Since
,
Felt
Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.
Star Jones
Women
,
Together
,
Different
I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.
Star Jones
Food
,
Forget
,
Sometimes
I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.
Star Jones
Good
,
Dying
,
Felt
I found that nothing that anybody else said to me would work.
Star Jones
Work
,
Nothing
,
Said
I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.
Star Jones
Him
,
President
,
Listen
I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.
Star Jones
Lost
,
Mean
,
Losing
I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.
Star Jones
Life
,
Wife
,
Real
I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.
Star Jones
Woman
,
Nation
,
Started
I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.
Star Jones
Believing
,
Couple
I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.
Star Jones
Made
,
Same
,
Choice
I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.
Star Jones
Wedding
,
Said
,
Big
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.
Star Jones
Senior
,
Division
,
Brooklyn
I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.
Star Jones
Nice
,
Crisis
,
Saying
I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.
Star Jones
Husband
,
Private
,
Tune
In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.
Star Jones
Mind
,
Honesty
,
Together
My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.
Star Jones
Dad
,
True
,
Words
No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.
Star Jones
Time
,
Exercise
,
Despise
Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.
Star Jones
Work
,
Health
,
Honesty
Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.
Star Jones
Family
,
Able
,
Far
One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.
Star Jones
Change
,
Two
,
Put
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Biography
Nationality:
American
Type:
Entertainer
Born:
March 24
, 1962
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