It can’t have escaped your attention that funnywoman Dawn French has lost an incredible amount of weight in recent months. And while we think she looks fantastic and much healthier, the lady herself can’t understand what all the weight-loss fuss is all about,
“I look slightly different now, yes, but the fuss has been remarkable,” Dawn tells Woman magazine.
“The only times I’ve put myself out there in the last year have been to go to posh things for my book. There I was, thinking that what was interesting was the fact I’d written a book but no, no… they’re only interested in what dress size I am.”
“Self–hatred”
The Roger & Val Have Just Got In star also explains that she decided to shift the excess pounds purely for heath reasons, and not because she was unhappy with her body image,
“I didn’t lose weight because of some weird self–hatred,” she says firmly. “But I started to wake up to the fact that if I got any bigger, I was going to be tipping into a dangerous area.
“I have a great fondness for that other body. I knew it very well and I don’t know this one as well, not yet. I was never actually unhappy then so it’s not the case that I was miserable and I’m happy now.
“I didn’t know about BMI”
Despite making fantastic progress after losing 7.5stone, Dawn confesses that while she feels so much healthier she is still overweight,
“The fact is, I’m still a fat woman. I’m still stones over my BMI index or whatever it’s called. I never even knew such a thing existed until people started telling me there was a weight you’re supposed to be.”
“I definitely feel healthier. There’s a hill opposite my house and I walk up it everyday and these days I can do it faster and I don’t puff as much as I did. It feels better.”
We think Dawn has done brilliantly to take control of her health, don't you?