Star Jones

The work was done in advance of an article about her home in the October 2003 issue of Architectural Digest. The Smoking Gun website published a copy of a letter she signed which agreed to the deal. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed in Jones's favor.

A nonprofit Detroit women's group, Full and Fabulous, accused Jones of theft after they invited her to speak at its "Health, Beauty and Self-Esteem" conference during the 2006 Super Bowl. Full and Fabulous alleged that Jones made changes to her flight itinerary that doubled the travel expenses the group was paying for, and that she spent the bulk of her time attending Super Bowl parties to promote her book rather than being at the conference. Jones-Reynolds' representative refuted the group's claims, insisting that she honored all contractual terms of the deal and that the organization fabricated the allegations for the sake of publicity. Read Less

She is a good friend of Wendy Williams and has often appeared on The Wendy Williams Show.

Jones has written three books. The first, You Have to Stand for Something, or You'll Fall for Anything, is a collection of autobiographical essays published in 1998. In January 2006, Jones published her second book, Shine: A Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Journey to Finding Love, detailing changes she made to reshape her life, including her marriage and dramatic weight loss. Her most recent book, Satan's Sisters, a work of fiction, was released on March 22, 2011.

Among the issues that emerged while Jones was a host on The View was her weight loss, which seemed to occur fairly suddenly after her years of weight struggles. Viewers and commentators suspected that she had had gastric bypass surgery. However, in 2006, when Jones was a guest on Bob and the Showgram on WDCG 105.1 FM in Raleigh, North Carolina, and was asked whether she had had such surgery, she denied it. However, in a September 2007 interview in Glamour magazine, she revealed that she had indeed undergone gastric bypass surgery in August 2003, resulting in a loss of over three years. A number of commentators criticized Jones for refusing to be honest and for claiming for some time that she had lost weight via a portion control diet and exercise. Before admitting the surgery, she even went so far as to adamantly deny ever lying to People Magazine and stated that she "wasn't ashamed." Read Less