- Let's meet the person who requested
You Look Good.
Where is Marci at?
Where you at Marci?
Hi, Marci!
- Hi Kelly.
- Oh my god! You have a special reason
for picking this song right?
- I do indeed Kelly.
For the last ten months, I have worked so hard
and I have dropped 83 pounds.
(cheers and applause)
- [Kelly] That's amazing! That's a lot of weight!
Way to go. - Thank you.
Yeah, thank you. - [Kelly] Incredible.
- I started back in January.
My husband got deployed.
He's an Army reservist and he got sent away
to Poland and Germany
and when he left I contacted my friend Shelly over here
and I said, let's get healthy for him,
let's make it a surprise for him when he comes home.
- Oh my god and for you, that's amazing!
That's something to accomplish!
- [Marci] It is, it is. - I have lost weight
and gained weight and lost weight and gained weight.
Yep, yep. - [Marci] I hear ya.
- It's not easy, Marci, it's not easy.
- And what else wasn't easy I kept it a surprise from him.
He didn't know what I did.
So we would Facetime and I would be careful
just to show my face,
and I'd be trying to you know bring back my double chin.
(laughter)
Like hi, hi, how are ya?
- You'd do the angle way down here "hi, honey."
(laughs)
- And Shelly here was my partner in crime
and we said ooh, how can we keep this from him?
And so when he came home two weeks ago
he met me at the airport
thinner, sexier, healthier.
- Was he freaking out?
Cause that's a lot of weight to lose!
- [Marci] Yeah, he was, he was saying--
- Yeah.
Or he's like, "who the hell are you?"
- Exactly, yeah, yeah I had to say "honey,
I'm here, this is me."
And he came over to see me, yeah.
- Well our friends at KSL5 TV in Salt Lake City
were on hand the moment Marci surprised Tom
at the airport.
(indistinct chatter)
(applause)
So Marci, have you had a chance to celebrate
your accomplishment?
That's a big thing, that's awesome.
- Thank you, it is, we haven't had any time at all.
You know he's been home just two weeks
and so we've been just getting him back into
civilian life, trying to acclimate him back
to life here with me.
- All right well I have something special planned.
Right now Tom is backstage and has no idea
Marci is already out here.
He doesn't even know,
oh he looks so sharp, c'mon now.
He doesn't even know the show has started,
he thinks they're coming out together to talk about
this story but let's give him one more surprise.
I'm hooking Marci up with my glam squad
for a head-to-toe makeover.
Tom is gonna lose his freaking mind,
Marci are you ready?
- I think I'm ready.
- You deserve this! Get back there!
Thank you not only for your service but your family's.
I've learned this from the Allens family,
I will forever say that now
but thank you, your family has sacrificed so much for us
and I really appreciate it.
- Well thank you Kelly, and thanks for having us
on the show.
It's a great pleasure and I'll tell you what,
it's great to be back,
it's great to be back home.
- Yeah oh I bet, I bet getting back home.
So we saw the video of your wife surprising you
at the airport.
Were you just shocked and freaked out?
- [Tom] Let me tell ya--
- 83 pounds man!
- I know, 83 pounds, it's amazing!
- I mean I've lost a lot of weight but that's like yeah--
- That's like half a person. - I find it too, but yeah.
- That's like half a person! - Yes.
- That's like half a person.
We get cheaper airline flights.
- I love it, I love it!
(laughter)
Were you seriously
just shocked when you saw her? - I was!
- She hid it, right?
She didn't show you right off the bat.
- She did not tell me a thing.
- Yeah. - I was a little bit suspect.
(laughs)
You know, I kind of thought
there was something going on, Kelly,
because of the way that she would talk with me.
I knew that she was exercising.
- Yeah.
- I knew that she was eating better and everything
but I never, never understood
the total impact
of what she was actually doing.
When I walked down - Incredible.
- that ramp at the Salt Lake International Airport
and I kind of turned a corner and there was Marci
and I'm going--
- Who the hell's that?
- Is that my wife?
I actually said that in my mind,
I'm going, is that Marci?
That is so awesome!
She just looks great.
And I'll tell you what, Kelly,
is it's not just the physical transformation.
- Yeah.
- Of course, it's the mental
and the spiritual transformation as well.
Her confidence, Kelly, is so much higher
than it was before I left, so much better,
and her self-esteem is amazing.
She wants to go out. - That's awesome.
- She wants to go out, she wants to do some bike riding.
- And you're pretty active, right, so you love it.
- Oh yeah, yeah, as a matter of fact I was
telling the guys backstage I'm gonna have
a hard time keeping up (laughs) with Marci now.
- That's awesome. Serve it to him, Marci.
(laughs)
Are you wondering where she is now?
- Absolutely, I thought I was gonna come out here
and I thought she was gonna be here waiting for me.
- Nope, nope, well I have a bit of a surprise.
Everyone here already met Marci earlier actually this hour.
She's amazing, we fell in love with her,
we get it, we get why you did.
(laughs)
We saw how big Tom's reaction was to her weight loss,
but now there's more to see.
That's because this whole hour
Marci has actually been undergoing
a full head-to-toe makeover courtesy of
my fabulous, yes, fabulous glam,
she deserves it, that's a lot of weight!
I'm like, yes!
So are you ready to maybe see Marci?
- I guess so!
- Yes you are!
- Yes I am!
- Come on out, Marci!
(upbeat music, applause)
- [Kelly] Yes!
You look beautiful!
- [Marci] Thank you.
- Oh my god!
I love your hair!
- [Marci] Isn't it awesome?
- Yes!
Come on over here, sexy!
- [Marci] Hi, sweetie!
- All right! I mean what do you think of your wife?
Check this out!
- It's amazing!
- Yes, she looks beautiful!
- She's always, she's always been beautiful.
- Good answer, Tom.
- She's always been beautiful.
- Isn't he great?
- I've learned after 23 years of marriage,
but she's always been beautiful to me.
But, seeing her now is just amazing,
it just blows my doors open.
- And that level of confidence you were talking about,
that spirituality, everything kind of comes alive
a bit more when that confidence comes in.
So I get that. - Oh yeah.
- I totally feel that.
How do you feel?
- Oh, Kelly, I say this a lot lately,
but it's life changing!
Certainly.
You know I knew before that I thought I looked good.
You know, you lose 83 pounds
and how can you help but look good.
But now, I know I look good,
people know I look good.
- [Kelly] It's so good.
- The world is my oyster!
- You look like a snack!
(applause)
All right well Earl Nicholson who runs
our show's glam squad is actually in the audience.
Earl, what'd you do?
Look at this! Check this out!
- Well we just wanted to celebrate her weight loss
and we had to,
so Tara who did her hair,
she gave her a more precise cut.
She tapered the sides.
- [Kelly] Awesome.
- And cut a lot off the back so that we could
elongate her neck and really show off her cheekbones.
And Jason, she has hazel eyes, so Jason used
plum and mauve shadows just to bring out
the green fleck in her eye.
With the lip color--
- I have the same color, okay, yes.
- Which celebrates with that orchid dress,
which it's a le petite robe from Chiara Boni.
It's a big name for a simple dress that doesn't have
buttons or zippers.
You just slip it on.
But it feels like a second skin without being too tight.
- Or slip it off, Earl!
- [Earl] Or slip it off!
- [Kelly] Slip it on or off Earl.
The choice is hers.
- [Earl] That's right.
- Marci you have something you want
to say to Tom though, right?
- I do.
- [Kelly] Okay, go for it.
- So, you've done a lot for me.
You've done a lot for our family,
and you've said all along
that this day is about me,
but sweetie,
I want you to know that everything I do,
my weight loss, this transformation, it's all for you.
(applause)
- Oh my gosh,
that's sweet.
So wait, when is y'all's anniversary?
- April 4th.
- April 4th, a good month.
It's my birth month.
So wait, y'all haven't been on like a real,
you're always working right on your anniversary,
I heard about this.
- Yeah, like five years running I've been
on duty during our anniversary so.
- Well that's not cool.
So five years is way too long not to celebrate,
plus Tom and Marci are both looking
real good right now, so we're sending them
on a romantic evening for two!
You're both looking good!
(applause)
And I'm so excited you're on this show,
and I'm glad you did this for Tom but also
for you as well, cause I do get weight loss
and like also gaining it back
but also losing it again so I get that
it's a very kind of dramatic thing
to go back and forth and get that.
It's an amazing thing that you did.
- Well thank you. - [Kelly] I'm so proud of you,
it's a really hard thing to do that.
- Thank you very much.
- Keep going. You are killing it.