“The View” famous  host and lawyer Star Jones Reynolds has recently confessed that her dramatic weight loss from the past few years has not been a miracle at all, but the result of a gastric bypass surgery. The famous American television personality did say in the past that she underwent a medical intervention, but it has been only now that she finally said the kind of that surgery.

Star Jones Reynolds, 45 years old, has also added that it was her intention to be evasive when being asked how she had dropped 160 pounds in the past three years. She has said that her whole life was already public and that she wanted to keep this just for her, fearing also that some fans would experience tragic result after trying to imitating her without previously getting informed of the risks. However, the most important concern of the talk shower was related to how people might start thinking about her.

Star Jones Reynolds have said that she started to “out-of-control” behave after she had turned 40 years old in 2002, when she had started to feel lonely, turning to food for comfort. She had gained then 75 pounds in 17 months, but after a friend awoke her, she decided to undergo the gastric bypass surgery. This took place in August 2003 and Reynolds has dropped 160 pounds till the present.

All these confessions have been made by Star Jones Reynolds in a first-person essay from the September issue of the Glamour magazine.