Carrie Fisher: 'My weight was a health risk'

Carrie Fisher has confessed that she decided to lose weight after realising that her size posed a risk to her health.

In an interview with The Huffington Post, the actress, who has lost 30 lbs since becoming the spokesperson for the Jenny Craig programme earlier this year, revealed that she became extremely unhappy with her appearance to the point where she rarely left the house.

"It was a health risk, I was afraid to leave the house, I didn't fit into any of my clothes," she recalled. "If somebody said, to be kind, 'You look good', I would argue with them because I didn't. I disfigured myself with weight."

She went on to insist that she did not consider herself to be attractive even when she was younger and weighed less, telling the publication: "I didn't identify as that. I felt I had to work on that, I think I sort of thought I was sort of passable, but I'm in a business where people are gorgeous and my mother [Debbie Reynolds] was gorgeous, so I grew up thinking, 'Well, I don't look like that'.

"So I didn't see what you end up seeing in your 50s. You say, 'Really?' You look at yourself at 22, most people realised they looked good no matter what they look like at 22."

Fisher previously admitted that she felt hurt after reading criticism about her appearance on the internet.