Carnie Article/Kym

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Hey Kym thanks bunches for your offer to type out the article in

Playboy....but I found where someone else did the work already!

Yeah.

Jo

Now for your reading enjoyment....

Here is the article word for word:

" Carnie is stepping out in a new skin, and the 35-year-old

singer's

enthusiasm about her transformation is infectious. " I went from a

size 28

to a size six, " she says. I'm sure I'm the first woman to be

featured in

BBW and Playboy within five years. I was always the fat chick from

or 'funny fat girl. " Playboy is my final redemption. Back

in 1999,

the daughter of Beach Boys auteur topped out at 298

pounds

before deciding to under go gastric bypass surgery to battle her

life-threatening obesity. Carnie used to associate her addiction to

food

with the absence of her father. Blaming people is a cowardly way to

live

your life, because you're not taking responsibility for your

actions, she

says. My dad and I became friends and did a lot of healing before I

had

surgery. He's funny, he wears his heart on his sleeve and he's the

strongest person I know. Her operation was broadcast live on the

Internet

for Spotlighthealth.com, an organization she continues to support by

giving

inspirational lectures. She's been shedding pounds--and dress sizes--

ever

since. Carnie wrote a book called 'I'm Still Hungry' about her life

since

the operation, and she lets out a throaty cackle if you ask her

about some

of the content. I wanted to call it Fuck! I'm Still Hungry, but it

was

toned down for obvious reasons, she says. I loved the Playboy

experience so

much that I condensed my four-day journal about it into two

chapters: 'To

Pose or Not to Pose' and 'Does Anyone Else Feel a Draft in Here?' I

originally wrote that I felt so horny--like one big vagina. The

title of

the book just says it--I'm hungry for it all. Carnie recently got

together

onstage with sister and Chynna for a

benefit

concert. The group's breezy California pop sound garnered platinum

and

multiplantinum albums featuring hits like Hold On and Release Me.

Now the

girls are back in the studio for the first time in more than a

decade.

We've been writing and recording for three years, Carnie says. The

new

songs are soulful, more like TLC. It's not about hit singles or

selling

millions of records anymore, even though that is nice. I'm all about

wanting everything five times five, but I've learned that I have to

cross my

legs and calm down. When was put on ice in the early

Nineties, Carnie branched out with acting rolls on The Sixties, Silk

Stalkings and other TV shows, and hosted her own short lived talk

show as

well. She met her husband, musician Rob Bonfiglio, three months

before her

weight loss surgery. When Rob and I met, it's not like he knew I

wasn't

fat, she says. He loved my sense of humor, my face and my perfume.

He also

knew I wasn't afraid to be wild in bed, so I think that turned him

on big

time! When I was tempted to not take a walk or eat an extra piece of

candy,

Rob was a big motivator for me since he never went out with a fat

girl. I

just became more and more sexual. Being a risk taker is how you move

on in

your life and motivate people. "