Kirstie Alley Is Your Fairy Godmother in Jenny Craig's New Ad

Remind anyone else of the movie Toothless?

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Kirstie Alley reunited with Jenny Craig earlier this year and planned to lose 30 pounds. Now, she's back and gets to celebrate surpassing her goal and dropping 50 pounds.

The new ad below, while cute, has one distracting aspect: Alley is playing a weight-loss fairy godmother, complete with gown, crown and wand—which is reminiscent of when she played the Tooth Fairy in Toothless. According to a rep for the company, this wasn't on purpose. 

Instead, the ad was inspired by a Jenny Craig member who supposedly loved her Jenny Craig consultant so much that she wanted to call her a fairy godmother.

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