Does Anyone Remember Kerri Smith?

  • I don't know where to post this but thought I'd throw it out to you guys and see if it rings any bells.

    A few years ago, a reporter for the Denver Post named Kerri Smith wrote a fascinating series about her own personal weight loss story. She took a year leave of absence in order to lose 200 pounds and wrote a weekly column about her journey and general weight loss topics: http://63.147.65.175/life/kerri/kerri.htm I avidly read it as it was published and really got caught up in her story. Thirty-three parts were published and then the series stopped dead, as far as I can tell. She also was scheduled to publish a book called "The Year Of Body Transformation" that was later cancelled.

    I've searched the Internet and googled her and can't find out anything about what happened to her. Why did she quit writing the series? Did she gain the weight back that she had lost? What's she doing now?

    Anyone know anything about Kerri Smith?
  • Meg - Kerri Smith's articles are rivetting reading. There must be something behind her seeming disappearance. Have you asked the Denver Post? Hope she's OK.

    Silverbirch
  • I've just dowloaded all the pages to read... That was my thought Meg to contact the Denver Post or Kerri hersef I see at the bottom of the articles that you can contact her...
  • My mind works like yours, Ilene! Unfortunately, Kerri Smith doesn't work for the Denver Post any more and I tried to contact the paper about a year ago and never got a response. I was hoping that maybe someone here has heard something in the past few years. I found the series through 3FC -- there was a lot of discussion about it while it was being published (that's how long I've been hanging around this place! ). So maybe there are other former readers out there?
  • The most recent info I could find was from 2002, when a current columnist from the Denver Post said that Kerri Smith's weight loss journey had been interrupted by her endometrial cancer, and she was doing fine and living in Arizona.

    I also found a Women's Day article that she wrote in 2002 about PCOS -- but nothing since then.

    Carrie