Remember Lara Flynn Boyle from Twin Peaks and The Practice? We haven’t seen much of her in years, and when we have seen her she’s looked so different from when she first got famous that it’s hard to recognize her. Lara was known for being very thin and tiny, but when we saw her in 2008 and again this year her face was so puffy it looked like she might have a medical condition. Many speculated that she might have had bad plastic surgery or injectables gone wrong, and that could have been part of it, but it looked to me like she was on steroids that were affecting her appearance.

Anyway Lara is coming back, in a way, with a reality pilot for E! It may got optioned for a series, but it sounds like it’s just a one-off to see if people are interested at this point. Deadline Hollywood has the details:

E! is looking to expand its slate of celebreality with a docu-reality series starring actress Lara Flynn Boyle. The cable network has greenlighted a pilot presentation for the project, which will follow the Practice alumna as she splits her time between her life in Texas and her marriage to real estate investor Donald Ray Thomas II and her Hollywood-centric lifestyle in Bel Air. Boyle, who is repped by Fortitude and Rugolo Entertainment, is currently meeting with potential showrunners. E!’s celebrity-driven reality series include mega-hit Keeping Up with the Kardashians and its spinoff Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami as well as Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane on sister channel Style.

[From Deadline via WeSmirch]

I don’t know much about Lara and can’t judge whether she’s interesting or not. I am curious about what happened with her, though, and if she is suffering from some kind of medical condition. I’m sure I’ll find out even without watching this show, so I’m not motivated to bother at this point. Unless she has 15 kids, confronts her husband’s mistress for a hair-pulling fight, gets bikini waxes on camera or shows herself before and after a facelift, I can’t see this show getting much interest. The reality show market is pretty crowded right now and no-names with half a brain cell are proving more popular than has beens.

Lara Flynn Boyle is shown on 8/1/10 (candids, credit: Fame) and on 10/25/08 (event photos, credit: WENN.com). Why isn’t she wearing shoes?