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"Long before she became a frontrunner on Dancing With the Stars, Kirstie Alley was an awkward 7th grade student at James R. Mead Junior High School in Wichita, Kansas.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Oh my God! No wonder I never got laid!&amp;quot; an embarrassed Alley joked when Jay Leno presented her with a series of photos from her childhood last Thursday.\r\n\r\nAs for her less than stellar hairstyle? &amp;quot;My mother was mean. My mother said she didn&amp;apos;t want me to have long hair because it was too thick and wavy, as opposed to really thin and straight. I was sort of forced to have this look.&amp;quot;\r\nNow 60, Alley tells UsMagazine.com she&amp;apos;s never felt better about her appearance.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Lots of weight&amp;apos;s dropping off,&amp;quot; she said at Petra Nemcova and Dmitry Chaplin&amp;apos;s Tsunami Relief party Monday. &amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s a good thing.&amp;quot;\r\nAnd she plans to keep it up, too. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m not going to whittle my ass down with all this hard work and then do nothing!&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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