Kirstie Alley has been very public in the last month about her weight battle and desire to get back on the horse. Now she’s on the cover of People, admitting exactly how much weight she gained: 83 pounds. I have no idea why in the world Kirstie would want to share something like that. Perhaps she hopes making it public will make her feel more motivated to change. But I’d sure as hell be mortified.

Kirstie admits the biggest culprits in her weight gain were a lack of portion control, excessive carbs, and ridiculous amounts of butter.

When Kirstie Alley stepped on the scale for the first time in 15 months, it wasn’t pretty. “I started screaming,” recalls Alley, sipping homemade fruit-infused water in her Hollywood kitchen. “It said 228 lbs., which is my highest weight ever. I was so much more disgusting than I thought!”

But looking back, Alley, 58, is hardly shocked. During her three-year stint as a Jenny Craig spokeswoman, she famously trimmed down to 145 lbs. after losing and keeping off 75 lbs. But since parting ways with company in 2007, she had not worked out and banished her gym equipment to the garage. As for her diet, her small, low-calorie portions gave way to Chinese takeout and pasta drenched with butter. “I fell off the horse,” says the 5’8″ star.

Okay, how did this happen?
It started with New Year’s [2008], right after leaving Jenny Craig. When you’re a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, there’s responsibility. You have a person every week standing over you when you get on the scale, and I did it naked because those panties could weigh 30 lbs.! It was amazingly successful. But the first nail in the coffin was that I didn’t have to weigh in. I just sort of went wild.

Did you go right back to indulging in cakes and pies the way you did the first time you let yourself go?
It wasn’t the exact same M.O. My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter. A lot of butter. If I’m at the movies, usually I eat popcorn without butter, but I’d say, “I’m at the movies, so who cares?” And toast with butter. Or let’s say I had two cups of pasta and six tablespoons of butter on it. There was a lot of butter going on.

What else would you eat?
For seven months I was a vegetarian, and I can’t tell you how much weight I gained being a vegetarian! A vegetarian would probably be eating vegetables. But to me being a vegetarian meant I’m going to eat enchiladas with no meat, and I’m going to eat lots of bread, lots of carbs.

[From People]

Kirstie also admits that she rarely goes out when she’s overweight. She says sometimes she’ll do thinks with her friends, but you won’t ever see her at any Hollywood events.

A lot of our commenters mentioned on our last Kirstie Alley story that even at her height, it looks like she weighs a lot more than 228 lbs in her largest photos. Before she did Jenny Craig she claimed she weighed 200 lbs at her heaviest, and that’s definitely not believable. But you can’t really blame a celebrity for toning down the numbers. In fact most of us B.S. about our weight, we just don’t chose to do it to People. Whatever she’s at, Kirstie’s placing a lot of attention on herself and how unacceptably fat she seems to think she is. I hope that will ultimately serve as motivation instead of making her feel self-conscious for sharing something so private.