What a Difference a Sandwich Makes

Renee Olstead at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles, August 3, 2008

The unemployment rate is higher now than it’s been in six years, gas is becoming like the flame in Quest for Fire, but people who remember who Renee Olstead is still have cause for hope: through the magic and mystery of eating, Renee apparently got her boobs back.

For those who don’t recall, Renee blossomed into a curvier version of “Kelly Bundy” in the last seasons of Still Standing, and got curvier still after the show ended. But then, sometime earlier this year, something changed in Renee’s eating or snorting habits that left her looking like she would need immunity if ever she were questioned by the police about Heath Ledger’s death. I myself even speculated that she might have had breast reduction surgery.

Renee in full flower

Wilted Renee

Mercifully, that dark time seems to be over as of the Teen Choice Awards last week. And if Renee can get back on food, maybe — if she can put aside her stalled music ambitions long enough — she can get back on TV.