Barbara’s New Book Not Pleasing Star Jones
If you love Barbara Walters and The View, you may want to pick up Barbara Walters recent memoir, Audition. In it, she spills the beans about the show – including some morsels about Star Jones and her weight battle.
And Star isn’t too happy about it.
According to Babs, View cohosts were ask to fudge about Star’s gastric bypass surgery. She made the same claim when she recently visited The Oprah Winfrey Show.
(She also chatted about her alleged affair with Senator Edward Brooke. But that’s another post, isn’t it?)
Star went on the war path, telling US Weekly that the stories “speaks to her true character.”
Pilates and healthy eating habits was the explanation Star offered during her View stint. A year after leaving the show (in 2006), Star gave up the goat and said she’d had the procedure.
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Barbara Walter’s life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she’s written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly - I actually liked it even more. The memoir is “”My Stroke of Insight”" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor’s book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don’t have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. “”I want what she’s having”", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!