Kirstie Alley

She married her distant cousin, Bob Alley, in 1970 but the marriage lasted only seven years.

From December 1983 to sometime in 1997 she was married to American television and film actor Parker Stevenson. They together have two children, William True and Lillie Price.

She welcomed her grandson Waylon Tripp Parker, born through William True, and announced the news on June 21, 2016.

Kirstie Louise Alley was born on January 12, 1951, in Wichita, Kansas, US to Robert Deal Alley and Lillian Mickie (née Heaton). Her father was a lumber company owner and her mother was a housewife. Her two siblings are Craig and Colette.

She grew up as a Methodist and studied at the Wichita Southeast High School and graduated from there in 1969. Thereafter, she enrolled at the Kansas State University in the same year.

She moved to Los Angeles to take up Scientology and pursue a career in interior designing, and became a member of the Church of Scientology in 1979. By that time, Alley also got drawn towards party lifestyle in California and eventually became a drug addict.

She underwent a Scientology-affiliated drug treatment program to combat drug abuse while continuing her training in Scientology. As of 2007, she has obtained the level of Operating Thetan Level 7. In 2007, she also donated $5 million to the Church.

She lost her mother in a car accident due to a drunk driver in 1981. The incident left her father severely injured, but he recovered eventually.

In 1979, she participated in the NBC aired popular American television panel game show ‘Match Game’, though not in the ‘Match Game '79’ season. The then interior designer Alley emerged winner of both the first and second rounds of the show winning $500 and $5500 respectively.

The following year she appeared as a contestant of yet another NBC aired American TV game show ‘Password Plus ‘ that furthered her exposure in the showbiz.

Her big-screen debut happened with the 1982 science fiction blockbuster ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’ that grossed $97 million at box office. She essayed Vulcan Starfleet officer Lieutenant Saavik in the movie, but refrained from reprising the role in the film’s next two sequels.

The ensuing years saw her featuring in other big-screen productions including films like ‘One More Chance’ (1983), ‘Blind Date’ (1984), ‘Runaway’ (1984) and ‘Summer School’ (1987); in TV movies like ‘A Bunny's Tale’ (1985), and ‘Prince of Bel Air’ (1986); and in TV miniseries like ‘North and South’ (1985) and ‘North and South II’ (1986).

In 1987, she replaced Shelley Long to play Rebecca Howe in the NBC aired American sitcom ‘Cheers’ that eventually became one of the most remarkable performances of her career. She featured in a total of 148 episodes in the series starting from 1987 till the show’s end on May 20, 1993.

She garnered much attention on her efforts towards losing weight which according to her started increasing in late 2003. She also appeared in the American reality television series ‘Kirstie Alley's Big Life’ (2010) that chronicled her life focussing on her weight losing efforts and also as a single mother.

In 2010, she established ‘Organic Liaison’ and announced in September 2011 that she used the weight loss products of the company and lost 100 pounds (45 kg). She was slapped with a class-action lawsuit with charge of false advertising in 2012.

The suit was finally settled in 2013 after she agreed to delete the term "Proven Products" from the product’s package and add a disclaimer that it is "calorie-based weight-loss product" in the website of the brand, apart from paying a settlement amount of $130,000. The Organic Liaison product line was later integrated into product line of Jenny Craig.