A biography for Star Joneshasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.”
“You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.”
“I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.”