Carrie Fisher 'ready to lose weight'

Carrie Fisher has revealed that she is tired of being fat.

The actress - who recently became the spokesperson for weight loss programme Jenny Craig - told People that her hectic showbiz lifestyle as well as the death of her father led her to weigh 180lbs at her heaviest.

"I would just graze, but I didn't do it healthy - it was like putting on the feed bag," she recalled of her time on the road performing her one-woman show Wishful Drinking.

"I look on the internet and they say, 'Whatever happened to Carrie Fisher? She used to be so hot and now she looks like Elton John'. I was really hurt."

Fisher went on to insist that she is now ready to shed the pounds after becoming unhappy with her body.

"I'm fat. All the clothes in my closet belong to another chick," she said. "They have to make a new alphabet for my bra size."