Brandy Alexandre stands 5'3" with natural blonde hair and green eyes. Her unique look (she reminds some of Georgette on the Mary Tyler Moore TV show) matches a unique personality. She is no stereotypical porn "bimbo."
"I used to have dimples," Brandy sighs, "but as I age they turn into crevices."
Born 7/17/64, she appeared in such videos as Blowing in Style, Dreams in the Forbidden Zone, Mystic Pieces and Unchain My Heart. She helped her ex-boyfriend John Stagliano start
Evil Angel Video.
Alexandre entered porn after sharing an apartment with Bill Margold. He persuaded her in 1986 to enter a Miss Nude contest. She won. After hanging out with porn people for several months, Brandy finally took the plunge, figuring it would hurt her ex-boyfriend. She sent him her first tapes but didn't hear back.
Brandy debuted in Rippin' and Strippin' where she turns into a mannequin. She did her first sex scene in Best Friends 2 - a gay male vid.
"I'm everybody's second choice in this business. They call me if someone doesn't show up - and I hate that."
Like Bill Margold, Jim Holliday loves Brandy. In AVN 9/92, Jim writes: "I have known the person almost as long as anyone in the industry. Brandy Alexandre is one of the most committed pro-industry people we have. For those who don't look, she also possesses one of the three best asses in the biz. She is available for work as an actress, contrary to public opinion. Dial the phone."
Jim's plea did little to secure work for Alexandre. Rarely a first choice, Brandy's Mormon work ethic created most of her porn appearances. Though repugnant to many because of her personality, Brandy was usually around and available. Her career justifies the cliché "Half the trick in life is showing up."
Brandy's parents rarely broached the subject with their rebellious daughter who dropped out of high school. She later passed an equivalency exam (GED).
"Dad never says anything about my career even when he's doing my tax return and writing off 50 pairs of panties as "supplies"," writes Brandy on her internet site.
"Some guys like a girl to suck all the time, but my lips get numb. So I put a lot of hand work into it. I watch the way guys get themselves ready for a scene, how they stroke, and I pay attention to whether they like it on the head, or if they like to have the base touched - long strokes, short strokes, wet or dry.
"I like cum everywhere. This is my theory for cum shots in the face. The camera is always on the cum-shot, and where do you want that camera? On your butt? On your pussy? On your tits? Or do you want it on your face? I want it on my face. And I like the warm splashy feeling."
Alexandre feels disgusted when people offer to pay her for sex, and even more disgusted when they don't, "thinking I'm not even the quality of a prostitute and I would just give it away for the asking. Popular opinion to the contrary, a porn star's life is not fixated on achieving sex. With sex being my business, I have to have a very good reason for doing it. A lunch or dinner date is not a good enough reason. Having prejudged most men, with good cause, I am reluctant to accept such invitations anyway.
"Sex for sport is not out of the question... Using sex to get a good deal or special favor... Also, meeting a celebrity that I know other women wish they could get their hands on, or a cop who's about to give me a ticket. I'm going to be unhappy when I get old and wrinkled.
"I expect that anyone who has watched one of my movies has jerked off to me. Otherwise I didn't do something right...
"I have been approached my both threatening and non-threatening individuals. It's easy to tell the difference. Usually the ones you need to be afraid of are not only saying that they like your work, but they go into detail about what they do when they watch you...or what they fantasize about doing with you... Those are the ones who have lost perspective." (RAME)
Brandy despises comedian Pauly Shore. "But I was at this porno party with this other girl who adored him... He wasn't interested. He was, however, interested in me. Just because someone else wanted him so bad, I gave him a blow job."
Alexandre dated Harry Reems for several months in the late '80s. "I've been asked to get married half-a-dozen times, and I told myself the next guy who asks me, I'm going to marry. And it was Harry Reems when he came back to town. And I thought, "Well, the next person. I'd rather not marry an alcoholic"." (Hustler PSI 1991)
Tired of being misidentified in reviews, Brandy published this letter to AVN (1/92).
This isn't the first time my good work has gone miscredited, uncredited or completely unnoticed. Pictures of me have been labeled "Victoria Paris", "Laurel Canyon", and "Sharon Kane". My name has been misspelled as "Brandi", "Brandee" and "Brande"; "Alexander" and "Alexandra".
One of the most recent transgressions is in the July/August issue of AVN. In the review of Cheeks IV: A Backstreet Affair, Dirty Bob raves about a limo backseat blow job but doesn't say who did it (me). No wonder my career feels like its standing still - nobody knows I'm making movies.
To set the record straight, here's a few tidbits of information for my fans and info for these highly qualified critics: I did the limo scene and the hot tub scene in Puttin' Her Ass On The Line. And since I've always believed that critics should notice, and that consumers should be told, when an actor crosses to the other side of the camera, I wrote VCA's The Last Resort. I wrote, directed and starred in both Blowing In Style and De Blond from Evil Angel, as well as Cheeks V: The Ultimate Butt, coming soon from Coast to Coast, in which I did the first scene with my own "A" and the last scene. Of course, if it turns out bad, I'll just say it was Debi Diamond.
AVN received half a dozen letters from the feisty blonde complaining about inadequate or inaccurate coverage.
Born in Huntington Beach, California on July 17, 1964, Brandy grew up the youngest of three girls. Her parents, to her relief, live far away in Utah, the same state that her ex-lover Harry Reems calls home.
Her two sisters are married with children "who adore their auntie. It's that birthday cash..."
Brandy lives alone with her computer and her furry Siamese cat Kamikaze. "I can't cook, I'm a lousy housekeeper and I watch too much TV," she says. "I spend too much time on the internet." She posts her views at such newsgroups as misc.writing and rec.arts.movies.erotica.
Brandy receives E-mail from men wanting to get into porn. "All they know is what they see in the finished product - guys happily banging away at beautiful women.
"They don't realize how long it took to shoot those scenes, what the attitude of the women and crew was, how many lights there were, how many people there were... Sure, everyone likes sex, but sex on demand is different.
"The industry is a boys club. If a woman does something to one of the boys, no matter if she had a legal, moral or ethical right to, she's history. I sued someone and won, but, alas, I had sued one of the "boys." Evil Angel Video owes me $10,000, Coast to Coast owes me $3,000, and Charlie Biggs AKA Phil Prince, owes me $4000.
"Charlie Biggs is one of the biggest slimeballs… He crawled up to me in the middle of the sex scene and said he'd give me two hundred bucks more to "take it up the ass". I said 'no'." (Brandy's net site)
Brandy told one poster on misc.writing that he was "stupid" for letting children believe in monsters. He replied: "I'm sorry for whatever happened to turn you into such a hard and bitter person, or that made you feel you had to call a total stranger "stupid" in such a vicious way for a simple differing of opinion. No one should be without magic in their childhood. Perhaps if you'd had more you would be a softer person."
Alexandre's harsh posts scare away competing female performers from usenet discussion groups such as RAME and ASM.
"There ya go Brandy," writes Brian Kushner on ASM. "Chasing away another voice from porn [Holly Ryder]. How came every female porn star that comes to this group has to be chastised by you?"
Brandy: "You guys moan about the forces trying to shut down, tame down...adult video... But then you turn around and embrace anyone who will talk to you... Holly Ryder tried to make everything about porn look bad... I will never forgive or welcome anyone who referred to me as slime and whimpered about being abused by the industry. I don't like people who...make me out as a criminal...
"For the record, Holly begged me for work, got upset when she didn't get it, and on my set, Randy West refused to fuck her." (RAME)
Alexandre professed shock when she found out that Tyffany Million was two years younger than her. "I thought you looked a good five years older than me, not two years younger. Someone needs to stay out of the sun."
Brandy chased Tyffany off the newsgroup alt.sex.movies with her cutting remarks. Million came on trying to sell her book on picking up strippers but fled after taking a beating from Alexandre and company.
"Hmmm... You must have some bitchen long-distance vision or something," wrote Tyffany on ASM. "You seem to have strong opinions on what I look like... pretty good for someone who has never seen me."
Brandy: "I know you're wrapped up in yourself and what you think is adulation...but don't ever think that I haven't seen you close up..."
Palantir: "Brandy, were you wearing your glasses? Or were your eyes puckering from the taste of sour grapes?"
Brandy: "I think she looks old... I'm sure you would've reacted in a similar manner if a person like Tyffany dismissed you as her contemporary to the point where she asserts you've never shared the same air space... She and I are exactly alike. We fucked in front of the camera for money. No better or worse than the next girl that does...
"I have tried to have this conversation with her several times but she has her head so far up in the clouds, or up her ass, she will most likely never understand who or what she is.
"These are the facts: "Real people in the real world would no sooner invite a porn star, me or Tyffany, to tea or cocktail than they would shit in public." (ASM)
Jay: "Both of you are among my favorite porn starlets. If you attack someone's personality, age, looks, writing skills... it's not only unprofessional but unethical. I thought you were a true professional, not only in front of the camera but behind it as well. Your recent postings show a different Brandy." (ASM)
Brandy: "Don't you know a troll when you see one? I wanted to see what kind of reactions I would get if I wrote the same stuff about Tyff that has been written about me through the years on this newsgroup. Apparently it's more acceptable for a fan to say rude things about a performers appearance, abilities and attitudes but not one of the performer's peers. Why? Where were you when countless others denigrated me in the same manner?
"I work in a highly regarded company for a gentleman that is revered in the community, serving the boards of at least ten significant organizations. I also volunteer my time as a secretary to a small charitable foundation that makes about $2 million in grants per year. I would LOVE to think that if I was exposed I would be praised for the way I've "turned my life around" or for the good things that I'm doing and the fine work through skill and knowledge that I accomplish. But that's not the real world and that's not what would happen. It would be a scandal that would destroy, or put to serious question, the company, the man, and the foundation.... I worry about it at least twice a week."
A newsgroup reader: "Name calling is a part of who Brandy is as a person. She doesn't have any other way of communicating with people. Just as you and I have normal conversations with people, Brandy lashes out as a form of communication. You can't take what she says personally, because she's off-center. You take her power away when you ignore her."
Brandy gets frustrated with the newsgroup RAME for rejecting some of her posts. "There is a serious delusion of power among the moderators [Brad Williams, Tim Evanson, Jeff Knapp, Peter Van Aarle, Imperator, etc) and a bias against me...
"For years I have been a faithful participant of ASM which unfortunately has been spammed to death. I decided to give RAME a try... Recently it appears that my posts are held to a different standard than others. I started to get all huffy - the way I do when I don't get my way...
"RAME has allowed a startling number of direct attacks, personal and mean-spirited... When I respond to these, I get rejected..."
A typical attack on Brandy goes like this: "Brandy's just a blip in porn film history... After wading through her paranoia, name dropping, tantrum throwing, unimpeachable "knowledge" and bullying of real porn queens like Tyffany Million and Holly Ryder for the past three years... she wasn't blacklisted from the industry. They just got sick of her whole presence and know-it-all attitude bullshit vibe... Saying that cute little bubble butt Holly Ryder was repulsive to men was the last damn straw. Jesus Christ, she had a body built for sex.
"This is porn. There's room for 400 pound fat ladies, 60-year olds and uglies like Saki St. Jermaine, and Brandy can't get a movie deal. Why? For someone so bossy and opinionated, she's sure got thin skin. Go ahead and pout all you want. Boo fucking Hoo. Grow up and behave like an adult for a change. And maybe we'll all back off."
Brian Kushner adds: "Why don't you crawl back into John Stagliano's asshole so he can shit you out again."
Brandy: "Now you can see why I get so upset..."
"How many porn stars have intellectual interests?" writes St. Richard on RAME. "Do they read? Do they care about anything besides sex and money? Curiously, this question is never asked about the men in porn."
Alexandre: "What kind of job do you think Randy West or Ron Jeremy would have if they were not in porn. The only guy that I knew with cultural interests was Mike Horner... "
Brandy and Mike dated for a few weeks.
"Although I liked Tianna, when Patrick Collins wasn't around, one can't avoid the fact that her post porn occupation is the classic, cliche "beauty school". For the money she received in the divorce [from Patrick] one would think that if she had the brains and the gumption there are a lot of more cerebral paths... if she had what it takes.
"While I have the brains, I lack the motivation. I was accepted into a school to become a surgical technician after their aptitude test, but didn't follow through. I passed all the written work for the Los Angeles Police Department, but I suppose you can guess what happened with that...
"I'm the #2 secretary to the CEO... in a multi-million dollar corporation with 7000 employees. I read a lot. I'm obviously in the upper percentile among non-professionals with computer literacy...
"Even if most [porn performers] wouldn't score very high on the standardized IQ tests, they know where the money is..." (RAME)
Brandy feuds with her "friend" Bill Margold. "He still to this day FREQUENTLY refers to me to total strangers, whom he's never bothered to screen for motives, purpose, or mental stability, by my non-porn name AND gives them my phone number... I have asked him REPEATEDLY not to do either, but...he persists.
"...I'd like to kick him in the teeth. It's none of his business. Brandy Alexandre is the only person he knows and the only person in the business and the thing I have chosen to call myself. If it's Brandy it's porn, and nothing having to do with porn, or related tome through porn should be spoken of by any name BUT Brandy... From the absolute beginning of my career in porn, and he knows because he was there, I have said that I was keeping my two lives separate and real names don't have a single thing to do with porn history."
A porn and internet veteran wrote to me in late January 1997:
"Everyone who has truck with Brandy gets flamed by her. I warn you that whenever your book comes out, hers may well, too. And you'll be lumped in with her, and she will harm you if she gets the chance. Aside from Bill Margold and Jim Holliday, I have never seen such a deep-seated NEED, absolute ADDICTION to being known... She approaches the endless flame-wars of the Internet with a vehemence and persistence that you can never match. It's pathological.
"Brandy must be famous. She wasn't famous as an actress. The major reason she worked was that producers knew she would show up on time.
"It's no accident that Bill was and is Brandy's...mentor. Their various feuds erupt precisely when one or the other gets a whiff of fame. Like mono poles of like charge, they repel in direct proportion to their hit of fame."
Brandy took her case against John Stagliano to the TV show People's Court.
"The plaintiff, Brandy Alexandre, is a pornographic movie actress who's suing her ex- lover for royalties she claims he agreed to pay her for one of the movies she was in, as well as pain and suffering caused by the break-up of the relationship. She's seeking $5000. The defendant, John Stagliano, says he doesn't owe Ms. Alexandre a thing, and that any royalties that may have been due were offset by his payment of medical bills which the plaintiff incurred while she was in hospital. This is the case we call Porn To Lose."
Judge Wapner ruled in Alexandre's favor for $1228. But she got nothing for pain and suffering.
"If I let you get away with money damages because you took the break-up harder than he did," said Judge Wapner, "every woman in California who's ever been jilted would be filing suit tomorrow."
In January, 1995, Brandy speculated that Jack Baker died of AIDS. She wrote on ASM January 12: "…Cancer is used as a cover story for a deadly sexually transmitted disease. And if Adult film actors and actresses are dying of this disease there are legal and health implications to this. I refuse to engage in AIDS-speak just because it makes some people feel better. The truth is all that counts."
Two years later, when the disease hit close to home, Alexandre demonstrated a different attitude.
On Wednesday night, 2/5/97, N. Smith at 7:31 PM Greenwich Mean Time broke the news of John Stagliano's HIV Positive status on RAME. Mike South, Brandy and others followed, mentioning Nena Cherry's positive tests. I read the news just after 6 AM PST Thursday and started checking sources, including a 30-minute phone call to Bill Margold.
I posted Margold's comments on ASM and RAME, leading the latter with "Bill Margold says he's ready to talk to the world to fight for "his son" John Stagliano..." I also mentioned that Nena Cherry had a reputation for using drugs and spreading sexually transmitted diseases.
Brandy read my posts, became furious and phoned her old roommate. She wrote on ASM: "Like it or not, Loser Luke, hard as you tried, you did not get to be the first to break the news.... I have spoken to Margold about your extreme lack of discretion and I assure you he will no longer be a "source" of your information if I have anything to do with it.
"Do you always burn people this way or were you momentarily an utter and complete lowlife, slime-sucking, tabloid moron who *thinks* he's a writer?"
I talked to Bill in the afternoon. He told me that by posting on Nena Cherry's alleged drug use I committed a big mistake that'd get me blackballed from the industry. He accused me of reveling in the misery of others. Margold said he was the clearing house for information about porn and that he'd see to it that no one talked to me. I was a lousy writer who'd never finish this book. And Brandy, who's "very popular on the internet" would get me kicked off it.
Pornographer Mike South rose to my defense on ASM on Friday. "Luke was NOT the first to post this info. And truth is, who cares if he was if what he posted was accurate, and with the possible exception of a final status of Nena Cherry, he was very accurate including Nina's reputation as a drug user.
"Let's not fall into the old "Kill the messenger" mentality..."
Brandy responded: "...He [Luke] is not an entity in the industry and has no business running off at the mouth...
"All his porn sources are officially closed, at least on this end. If that's not so I'm sure he'll tell me so. In that event I will rip new asshole for those parties as well."
"I spoke at length with John," Brandy wrote on RAME in early February, 1997, after the news that Buttman had tested HIV positive. "I told him the news made it to the net and he said he does not care. I told him what many people are speculating about him, he said he does not care. I told him the future of Buttman had been questioned by his online fans based on flying accusations of bisexuality. He said he does not care. He said that none of your opinions matter to him. I asked if there was anything he would like me to post, and guess what - he said he didn't care."
Reacting to my role in spreading the news about John Stagliano's HIV positive status, AVN's Gene Ross wrote in the 5/97 issue: "The internet, thanks to an industry gossip monger named Luke Ford, had already begun rushing to judgment well before any facts were in."
In late April, Brandy posted on misc.investments.stocks: "I need to know what the Dow Jones Industrial Average record was around the end of March...
"There's a reason that some boyfriends have EX in front of them. My ex-boyfriend [John Stagliano] was not very wealthy when we were together for two years when he started his company with my expert help. But he certainly is now, and doesn't hesitate to say so (scary thing, that white trash getting money).
"Anyway, we get along all right now as long as he's not telling me how much money he has, knowing how little I have. There is some contention whether or not he owes me $10,000 in commissions. Obviously I say yes. He brags about making $2,000 a day, but can't manage to give up five days worth to settle the issue.
"Around April 15th I told him to just pay off my car and I'll let the issue die. The pay-off is only $4,400, saving me $150 a month which is a lot of money for me. He said that if the Dow Jones hits over 7000 in the next 30 days he will..."
Brandy later apologized for the post and announced that John had paid her off.
On March 21st, 1997, Brandy replied to my latest post on ASM. "It has been my pleasure to drop a note to Barclay House about the posting of major portions of Luke Ford's book (if not all of it) [in reality about 1% of it] on the net. I'm certain they will no longer be interested in paying any amount close to first rights since this spam can be read by millions of people around the world.
"As an aspiring writer, I have thoroughly investigated the do's and don'ts of the net and publishing. Glad to see this loser hasn't and I can so easily affect any commercial interest in the book.
"It was also my pleasure to include in my letter who I was and what I know about the alleged Mafia in the industry. I also informed them that Mr. Ford's major (if not only) source within the industry has cut him off due to Mr. Ford's outlandish behavior, i.e., kiss and tell (you know who, Luke) [Bill Margold] spreading rumors, and even behavior that had him kicked off AOL."
After ignoring for months most of Brandy's attacks on me, I posted in late April, 1997, most of this profile of Brandy on RAME which the aggressive blond described as a thinly disguised flame.
Mike South replied to her: "Brandy, if you terrorize a dog or a human being long enough, they will attack you. This shouldn't be a big surprise."
Brandy: "I haven't terrorized anyone. All I've done is point out a few of his mistakes."
Nena Cherry felt hurt by Brandy's stinging comments.
Subject: Brandy and Bushmiller
From: "Nena Cherry"
Date: 1997/06/14
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.erotica
I cant believe that these two can not find something better to do besides pick on people like they are so damn perfect. What is the deal, do you not have something better to do or do you just get off on it? You must get off on it , well Im sick and tired of it and wish that two of you and ``Troy288`` would either be nice or leave me the hell alone. Im really sick of the games that you three are playing and think that you should grow up and act like adults and not some assholes who just wait for the oppurtunity to bust you ass over small human erroror try to put their noses where it does not belong. Brandy, I see here on RAME has a history of doing this and seems like a know it all on just about every subject there is , as if she is a mistake free human and does no wrong , but just as all of us have read here in the archives she has a skeleton or two in her closet and a history of being a ass to people and treating others like her whipping post and why people would take that shit from her is beyond me. I will not, I have never met her and she tries to dog me out in IRC and every single oppurtunity she and her ``clan`` has.
This is so ridiculous and I wish they would get over it. What makes her so perfect that she feels the right to bash people and pry into thieir lives and gossip and start rumors? I admit that she is very well spoken but she has used it in several negative ways, against people as a way to gain some sort of personal glory. But where is the glory in being a rude ``know it all`` ? I also never said that I have great computer skills, I have only been doing this for a very short time and less than 6 months, so I apologize to those of you who have been caring and patient with my postings that have errors in my typing and mispelled words here and there, I will be more careful and try to slow down and proof read befor I post them to the newgroups. Brandy you dont have to act like your trying to help me with your ``suggestions`` we know that is a load of crap, I dont like your games and it is another attempt to bash me again, as you have so many times. What is your problem cant you be nice or are you just going to be a ``well spoken `` bitch with a attitude and not a nice bone in your body? What the hell did I ever do to you for you to always be nagging me? Its not just me that you do this to, you`ve been doing this for a very long time. And that is old, all your games and the way you treat people and talk to them like they are your dogs. Like you are so damn wonderful, I never came to RAME to get sympathy as you like to say. Think what you want and your clan too for that matter, it is none of your damn business why Im here. Im not here for you , Im here for me. Good try, again, but no cigar.
Bill Margold said you were a nice person and from time to time I hear that but not often enough enough I hear that you can be sweet but for the most part I see a very callous, bitter and angry woman, and you like to have someone around to take it out on. Well guess what lady, Im not her and if the table was turned then I dont think you would go for it either. As Ive read from your post you dont take shit from people too well. I dont either!
Bill also said that you would make a good friend and that if I went to IRC chat that you would not let people bad mouth me that you would have them thrown out ....What? It seems to me that you are the one to watch out for.
And from my experience you are very vindictive and have no reason to be to me. I never met you any harm or anyone else for that matter that is not the type of person I am. So you really have no reason to have it in for me. I dont care how long you have been up here , that makes no difference to me and I will remain here like it or not... Brandy you are not my mother so dont pull that ``suggestion`` shit with me. Dont tell me what the hell to do and how to run my life, much less my computer or anything, I dont need it.
From: "Nena Cherry"
Subject: Wicked web witch Brandy
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.erotica
Nena says:
Oh, did I get under your skin ? You are the loser. Take a good look in the mirror.Obviously I got to you wench. You wish something bad would happen = to me ! HA!
Brandy says: "I'm sure you know all about stuff that you put under your skin. You denied needles so often and know one even asked the question. Its so obvious your a junkie."
There were statements made up here regarding the rumors that I did use needles and we know already that is not true, so another weak attempt, Brandy. But it is getting OLD! Just like you.
Brandy says: "BTW, you mean wench, you illiterate sack of shit. I spelled it right this time . And when you say sack of shit you must mean your shitty homepage. That one picture looks like you were cleaning house and mopping the floor with your hair tied back and a cheesy bandanna, buck teeth and all, no makeup, and ready for the world to see."
Enough there and she goes on.....
Brandy says: "Your getting fake boobs because you think that your going to get work again but you are out of your mind. You are a truly pathetic and insane little girl."
It seems to me that you are displaying a great deal of anger here. It will be okay....
Brandy says: "I would pity you if I gave a flying fuck about you."
Thanks but no thanks I did not come here for pity, and had no idea I would meet you and seeing your state of mind I do pity you. Well since witches do fly on broomsticks I dont see how you cant give a `` flying fuck`` about me . Thats odd, you fly your broomstick to all four corners of the internet.
Brandy, you are bitter because you didn't make it in the industry, and have not been a part of it in a very long time. Go howl at the moon.
I was curious to what happened to you and John Stagliano? Seeing the type of person you are (rude, evil, and malicious). Did you run him off and turn him to men? I'm sure John was not bisexual before he met you. That kind of attitude you protray is enough to make any man want to sleep with another man! And you probably wish that you were a man so that you could have him back, don't you?
Good try again with all the personal emails you keep on sending me. Have a great day, "lady."
Oh, by the way, your nose job sucks and if you would like a referral I'd be happy to introduce you to my vet. Stay away from those profile shots. They do you no justice. Just thought I'd give you a "suggestion."
Born 7-14-64, Aja, a brunette with big breasts, and a dancer's body appears in 300 adult projects, including At the Pornies, Broadway Brat, Sensuous Sinners and Pillowman. She wears a corset to cover stretch marks from losing a lot of weight.
