New View: Star Jones Launches Blog & Tapes Oprah Appearance

TV personality Star Jones turned 47 yesterday.

The former co-host of ABC's 'The View' commemorated the day by launching a new blog called Positively Star.

Jones wrote on the blog on her birthday about how a medical diagnosis when she was 19 years old gave her just nine months to live.

"Actually, I wasn't supposed to see 47. Heck, I wasn't supposed to see 20," Jones wrote. "At 19, I was in my last year of college, and I was diagnosed with an inoperable tumor in my chest. The tumor was growing daily, and it had wrapped itself around my esophagus, lay between my lungs and under my heart. I was given nine months to live. I'd always wanted to be a lawyer so something in me said fight, and I did. I found a doctor who didn't think the tumor was inoperable, and he (after eight hours of surgery) removed it and got it all out. I was back in class seven days later. Eight weeks of radiation, five days a week followed. I graduated from college on time, went on to law school and began living my dreams. My thyroid was destroyed in the process, which caused me to gain weight over the years...but other than a scar down the center of my chest; you'd never know I got a death sentence over 25 years ago. How good is God!"

Positively Star features a simple design and describes the former Court TV/TruTV talk show host as "an American lawyer chick who is free, black and grown."

Don't expect the former Mrs. Al Reynolds to be blogging about celebrity gossip and Hollywood rumors – after being a tabloid mainstay for years, she won't take that approach.

But Jones will likely voice her opinion on hot topics, current events and things that inspire and motivate her, because the blog is called Positively Star!

Yesterday, the Badin, North Carolina-bred star declared she's "healthier and happier than I've ever been and I have God to thank for it."

Jones will talk about her health and losing weight in the public eye alongside Valerie Bertinelli on an upcoming episode of 'Oprah.'

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Star -- Alleged Surgery?

Former television personality and best-selling author Star Jones finally opened up about her notoriously-hidden gastric bypass surgery in an Nov. 2008 edition of Essence magazine. "If I had just been honest, there would not have been a backlash," she said, noting that her "big mistake was not telling the audience" of the top-rated ABC talk-show 'The View,' which she was a co-host of for 10 years. The 47-year-old tabloid mainstay lost more than a whopping 150 pounds. "It was dangerous to me," she said about her former obesity in another interview. "I was killing myself."

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