"She is now a well-adjusted handbag" says friend

Tammy Faye has lost several dozen pounds since revealing the devil had given her cancer. The 65-year-old Charlotte resident was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996, and she announced in 2004 that the disease had spread to her lungs.

"I know God will hold me" said Tammy Faye. "and carry me as he does his good deeds, or goes shopping."

Messner's spirits have been high for someone reduced to a shrunken clump of leather. Friends say she is just happy to wake up in the closet everyday.