Trust me, KJJ, I know all about weight gain as you get older. lol. Valerie was always a little bit chunky, she had what I call farm girl looks, not hefty by any means, but just the right amount. She was so cute when she was younger, I used to wish that I looked like her when she was on One Day At A Time. She was a few years older than me, so she was one of my idols when I was little. And she grew into a lovely woman. She did gain weight when she got older and did one of those famous programs, Jenny Craig, or something. She is still a beautiful woman to me, and always was.
Now for Mackenzie, I'm sure she was trying to sell her book, that is generally what people do when they write books. But it sounds more like she was telling her story, of being exploited and used by her pervert father, who fed and got her addicted to drugs and then coerced, or at least convinced, a very high and confused little girl into doing things she was not yet old enough to even understand. If she was 11 years old and her father gave her cocaine and then had sex with her, I'm sorry, but that is sexual abuse, and physical abuse. Both are crimes. I remember her well on One Day At A Time and the trouble she got into. By that point, she was already ruined.