The New 'F' Word

Kirstie Allie is back to tell people that the "F" word is not that bad. Fat, that is. The Emmy Award winning actress is starring in a new show called "Fat Actress," a show about an overweight actress in an industry where you are never too thin. Alley will play herself in the series as she struggles to find acting jobs that don't discriminate against people her size and comes to finds those kinds of jobs are far and few between."My message wasn't 'Oh wow, don't I look beautiful even though I'm hefty.' That's not what I was trying to accomplish," Alley said. "I was trying to accomplish somebody pathetically realizing that they're really fat."

One of the scenes shows Alley calling her agent to complain about the utter disbelief Jeff Zucker, head of NBC Universal Television, shows when he sees Alley's figure.Alley says she does not believe the show is an attack on Hollywood, rather a realistic view of the hypocrisy that goes on when any woman that is overweight goes to an interview for a job.

"It's a comment on how if any woman walks into any interview overweight they would be all nicey nice and when she left they would go, 'Oh my God, she's so fat.' It's not exclusive to Hollywood," she said.

The show is unorthodox in that there is not a set script, rather the actors improvise, taking punches at each other and trying to see who can be the most insulting. Guest stars include Alley's former co-star in the "Look Who's Talking" movies, John Travolta, as himself, comforting Alley after her agent suggest she lose some weight. And Kelly Preston, Travolta's wife, appears as a as a collagen-lipped diet guru who counsels Alley to induce vomiting by sticking something really beautiful down her throat.