Kirstie Alley's Big Life is an American reality television series on A&E that debuted March 21, 2010. The series chronicles the life of Kirstie Alley as she works to lose weight, launch a weight loss program and be a single mother. The series was distributed and aired on A&E prior to the series being shifted to Lifetime. At the time of filming, Alley weighed . Alley was the star of the show, but not the heaviest person on the show. Jim (her handyman) weighed roughly 100 pounds more than Alley, weighing in at . The two of them were the only overweight people on the show; together they weighed . Alley ended up losing most of the weight she had hoped to eliminate while following the diet that she had created.