Daisy May Cooper has revealed the startling moment she didn't recognise herself after losing a staggering amount of weight.
The comic actress says she didn’t appreciate how much weight she has lost until she saw herself in a flashback from her hit sitcom.
Daisy, 38, joked that she has lost a whopping 10 stone the space between filming series one and two of Am I Being Unreasonable?, and it was seeing herself in old scenes which really made her see how her appearance has changed. Daisy May puts her transformation down to adopting the Keto Diet - which promotes a high fat low carb meal plan - after the 2020/21 Coronavirus Lockdown.
She told The Sun’s TV Magazine: "It was a bit mad as since we filmed the last series and this series I’ve had my lips done and lost about ten stone so in those flashbacks, we were just killing ourselves laughing as we don’t even look the same people. But it was fun.
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Getty Images)"And I was pregnant when we started filming series two and my a**ehole of a son decided to be born seven weeks early, so we had to stop filming right in the middle. I have a brilliant son, but that was stressful."
Daisy May shot to fame after the success of her BBC mockumentary This Country, which co-starred her brother Charlie. She revealed that he will be making an appearance as a fake Dutchman in the new series of Am I Being Unreasonable? Which will be uploaded to BBC iPlayer in its entirety on Wednesday.
She added: "The funny thing is we share the same agent – and the same mum – so you can’t exactly say no!
"I had to put him in a mullet. The funny thing is, actually, he kept dropping the accent – he’s not very good at a Dutch accent."
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David M. Benett)Daisy previously told Grazia that she had been trolled for her slimmer figure. She said: "I've had some messages like, ‘Well, now you've lost the weight you're not funny any more.’ What the f***? Why do women have to be f***ing fat to be funny?
"That makes me so angry. I champion anybody. I think everybody should be happy with their body. But I wasn't."
She didn't just ditch bread and pasta as part of her wellness journey, it seems wine is off the menu, too. When The Sunday Times asked the Never Mind the Buzzcocks team captain to share the "best advice given?" Daisy answered with: "From Denise Welch, who said stopping drinking is life-changing."
Denise has been open and honest about her battle with alcohol prior to getting sober over a decade ago. Celebrating 11 years booze-free in April 2023, Denise, 66, shared a side-by-side photo of herself on Twitter (X), showing her before and after her last drink, to mark the anniversary.
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BBC)The Loose Women panellist also thanked her husband Lincoln for his support in her journey, who himself got sober alongside her. "11 yrs sober today! ! " she captioned the picture. "My greatest achievement apart from Matty and Louis. Thank you to my husband @LincolnTownley for everything [red love hearty emoji]"
- Series 2 of Am I Being Unreasonable? airs Wednesday 5th February at 9:30pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer
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