Ken Barlow’s new love curiosity Helen Lederer has revealed the drastic lengths she went to be skinny.
The Completely Fabulous actress, 69, who is about to seem on Coronation Street subsequent week as Ken’s date Elspeth, admitted she took slimming pills for years and lived on a weight loss plan of 400 energy a day and wine.
Helen noticed her weight yo-yo from a measurement 10 to a measurement 16 all through her profession and mentioned: ‘It was actually like I used to be residing the Ab Fab life: I’m the muggins who’s actually doing it.’ .
‘I used to be no stranger to testing one thing out if I wanted to lose weight, I didn’t care how I did it,’ the actress mentioned in a brand new interview with The Sun.
‘I would have phases of occurring and off slimming drugs for a few years. Once they labored, I assumed they had been nice, however it wouldn’t be lengthy earlier than your coronary heart was racing.
Ken Barlow’s new love curiosity Helen Lederer has revealed the drastic lengths she went to be skinny
The actress, 69, who is about to seem on Coronation Road subsequent week as Ken’s date Elspeth, admitted she took slimming drugs for years and lived on a weight loss plan of 400 energy a day and wine
‘I bear in mind there was a comedy collection I did in Scotland and I don’t assume I ate any meals as soon as whereas taking them, I simply drank loads of wine. Now I look again and assume, “How?” However again then folks simply did these items and received on with it.
Helen mentioned she turned to slimming drugs as she by no means has had a ‘mannequin determine’ and all the time needed the proper physique.
The actress mentioned when she was at her skinniest she was ‘fed up’ and depressing’ and shortly put the load she had misplaced again on.
Helen mentioned the weight-loss jabs Ozempic and Wegovy ‘sound like a dream come true’ and would have taken them had they been provided when she was youthful.
The medication are so widespread in Hollywood that the makers of the weight-loss medication have launched a marketing campaign pleading with influential folks to cease utilizing them for ‘vainness causes’, which has led to shortages affecting those who genuinely need them.
Now, Helen has embraced her determine and mentioned of all of the ‘loopy lengths’ she went to: ‘you simply should overlook about it and get on with it’.
Helen will hit the cobbles subsequent week the place she’s going to participate in Ken’s courting storyline.
‘I bear in mind there was a comedy collection I did in Scotland and I don’t assume I ate any meals as soon as whereas taking them, I simply drank loads of wine’, she mentioned (pictured in 2004)
Helen noticed her weight yo-yo from a measurement 10 to a measurement 16 all through her profession and mentioned: ‘It was actually like I used to be residing the Ab Fab life: I’m the muggins who’s actually doing it’ (pictured 2022)
Helen (C) discovered fame in Ab Fab as Catorina, pictured with co-stars Joanna Lumley (L) and Harriet Thorpe (R)
Helen will hit the cobbles subsequent week the place she’s going to participate in Ken’s courting storyline
Identified for as soon as being the cobbles largest lothario (Bill Roache) and determined to show he nonetheless can nonetheless woo the women on the age of 91, Ken embarks on velocity courting.
After being single for close to a decade following the loss of life of his beloved spouse Deirdre in 2015, he catches the attention of fellow dater Elspeth (performed by Helen).
Ken attends the velocity courting occasion with ex-son in regulation Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson) and leaves the Taxi agency proprietor gutted when, regardless of his advancing age, manages to outdo him within the romance stakes.
Talking concerning the position Helen, who will seem in a single Wednesday March 27, described her character as ‘ahead and daring’.
She additionally admitted that one of many largest attracts to taking the half was the chance to behave reverse Invoice, who has appeared on the cleaning soap because it’s first episode in 1960.
Saying: ‘I had met him as soon as earlier than once I sat subsequent to him at an occasion and I assumed what a beautiful man he was and so personable. So for me to be provided this temporary position was a pleasure’.
And regardless of solely showing briefly Helen teased that Ken took Elspeth’s quantity throughout their scenes and he or she very properly return to the cleaning soap ought to he name.
In addition to taking part in Catriona in Ab Fab, the actress has additionally appeared in Hollyoaks, Celeb Massive Brother and Agatha Christie’s Marple.
