THE EYES OF TAMMY ARE UPON YOU

Tammy Faye Messner has shed 30 pounds thanks to a liposuction make-over, and she's moved across the country in a bid to rejoin disgraced ex-hubby Jim Bakker on national TV. But despite a rave reception for her new documentary film at the Sundance Film Festival, their comeback trails may diverge for good.

Friends were stunned when a newly slimmed down Tammy Faye showed up at a Christmas party last year and disclosed she had undergone liposuction, according to a story in the National Enquirer.

"She secretly had liposuction twice during the 1980s, and each time she whined afterward that the procedure had nearly killed her," an insider told the Enquirer. "The only reason she'd risk it again is to get in shape for Jim so he'll take her back when his TV ministry gets started again. There's nothing Tammy wants more."

But sadly for Tammy Faye, Jim may be having second thoughts about having her back as his singing sidekick when he's restored to his old ministry at Heritage USA.

Last July a group of wealthy Christian businessmen--led by former Green Bay Packers star defensive end Reggie White--planned to put Jim back in the pulpit at the Heritage USA biblical theme park Bakker lost when he was charged with bilking his PTL followers out of $158 million in 1986. They also wanted Tammy Faye to share the spotlight with Jim again. "I visualize it being huge," White said when the plan was formulated last year.

Bakker disclosed the theme park plan in a letter to still-loyal PTL (Praise the Lord) supporters last May.

"The great Christian football player Reggie White asked me to be part of his team to restore Heritage USA," he wrote.

Late last spring, Bakker and his new bride Lori moved into a log cabin in Charlotte, N.C., just north of Fort Mill, S.C., home of the former theme park where he and Tammy Faye preached and sang to millions every day.

Then in June, Jim and Tammy Faye were reunited at the wedding of their son Jamie, 23. The occasion was a bittersweet reunion for Jim and former bestfriend, church builder Roe Messner--the man Tammy Faye married while Jim was in prison, and who only recently got out of prison himself for bankruptcy fraud.

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