It’s Marcia, Marcia, Marcia when the fifth season of "Celebrity Fit Club" returns to VH1 next year with "The Brady Bunch" star MAUREEN McCORMICK among the eight celebrity weight watchers. "My daughter said, ‘Mom I think you should do it,’" Maureen replies, when asked why she agreed to appear on the celeb reality show. "For the past few years, I had been totally out of exercising, just eating and going crazy. I thought, ‘What a great opportunity to do something positive.’" Maureen, who admits she suffered from bulimia in her late teens and early 20s, is hoping to lose the 25 to 30 pounds she has gained since her mother died. "I have had a lot of hard things going on in the past few years of my life," she tells ET. "My mother was my best friend. It was really hard going through her illness with her. I have a brother who is mentally retarded, and about a month before my mother died, my father came to me and said, ‘I need to put DENNY into a home.’ That was really, really difficult." As for her eating disorder, she says it didn’t take place during "The Brady Bunch," but afterwards. "Back on the show, I could eat whatever I wanted," she recalls. "Things changed. I am 5-foot 3-inches. At some point I stopped growing, and it is harder when you are small. We never dealt with [eating disorders] on the show. I really don’t think EVE [PLUMB] or Susie [SUSAN OLSEN] were dealing with a weight issue." It was a fear of becoming very ill or dying that caused Maureen to stop purging. "I had some friends going through the same thing with me at the same time," she explains. "I am really stubborn and really strong-willed when I put my mind to something. When I do, I can say no and turn things around." Joining Maureen for the fifth season of VH1’s weight-loss series are TIFFANY, KIMBERLY LOCKE, DA BRAT, DUSTIN DIAMOND, WARREN G, CLEDUS T. JUDD and ROSS MATTHEWS.
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Now I can’t wait to see this season of CF5.
