Kathy Griffiths Confesses to Using Diet Pills and Speed
Posted: Friday, 4 September, 2009 | Categories: Diet Pills, Weight Loss
The comedian Kathy Griffiths has revealed that she struggled for years with body image issues and was so desperate to lose weight she went on crash diets and used diet pills.
She said that after years of being told by Hollywood that she didn’t look right, she became obsessed with her weight. As well as exercising excessively, taking back to back aerobics classes, she said she would starve herself during the day and binge at night. She also said that as well as trying slimming pills, she even spent two weeks taking speed, known to be a dangerous and drastic way to lose weight.
She said if the period that it was “full on, illegal speed” and added that she “took it to lose weight, which is not very smart.” However, when she stopped she said she just “felt three times as hungry afterwards.”
Griffiths said that even after she got her big break in the acting industry, landing a major role in the Brooke Shields sitcom Suddenly Susan she still felt that she wasn’t slim enough. American celebrity gossip magazine People reported how the actress lost 15lbs very fast during the first season but still felt that she was overweight. She described how realising that the clothes didn’t come in anything larger than a size 4 (UK size 6) really got to her.
She then had liposuction, but nearly died after there were complications with the operation. She is now at her thinnest weight, but confessed that staying thin was a struggle, forcing her to watch what she eats and work out a lot.
Ironically enough, after trying some dangerous and extreme ways to lose weight, Griffiths said that getting her perfect bikini body fairly late in life was due to the age-old weight loss methods of dieting and exercise.