Dawn French is best known for the popular comedy show French and Saunders which aired from 1987 to 2005.
“I set about dropping a few stone.
“No magic wand, just tiny, joyless low-cal eating and lots more walking for weeks and weeks.
“It was grim. I lost seven-and-a-half stone. I could have the keyhole surgery.
“Great. That’s all it was, practical,” she explained.
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Her secret then was a balanced and healthy diet and a more active lifestyle.
The actress, however, admitted struggling to maintain her current weight.
“I shed the weight a long time ago, I go up a bit, down a bit, feel no different. I’m still Dawn, I liked the old Dawn, I may go there again, depends how many doughnuts I decide to eat,” she told Loose Women.
Dawn said she doesn’t “give a f**k” about gaining weight again.
“I’ve gone back to being an entire barrel but do you know what, I’m going to be 63 this year, I don’t give a f***, I really don’t, so long as I can walk.
“I’m not going to be stingy to myself anymore. I never did dislike anything about my body, even when I was very, very fat. I refuse to be forced to dislike myself.”
Dawn continued: “I used to get really angry when I did lose weight, people going, ‘You look so well,’ as if you looked awful before – rewarding you for managing it, which is not easy, I accept that.
“But I didn’t want people to give me approval. It’s so patronising.”