Submitted by: kirkland on Tuesday November 07th, 2006 at 07:07 PM EST

Kirstie Alley tells the upcoming issue of Life magazine that at her heaviest - 220 pounds - people could call her "large and in charge," or "full figured," but in reality, she was fat.

The former "Fat Actress" dropped 75 pounds using the Jenny Craig diet and debuted her bikini-ready bod yesterday on Oprah Winfrey's talk show - something the 55-year-old star would never have done during her svelte "Cheers" years.

"In the years when I had a brilliant body, I wouldn't have done Oprah for a million dollars," she laughs. "Now I feel happy with the way I look and feel."

Alley confesses that curbing her overeating was more of a challenge than kicking her cocaine addiction in the ’70s because she couldn’t just quit food cold turkey. After all, she was consuming a whopping 8,000 calories a day, bingeing on bacon, eggs, butter, bread, burritos and steak.

» Full story @ Boston Herald