Inside Daisy May Cooper's incredible 10 stone weight loss

Daisy May Cooper has shed an incredible 10 stone over a three-year period - and now the This Country icon looks unrecognisable. The 39-year-old actress and comedian confessed to suffering from a "food addiction" when she was at her biggest, telling the Daily Mail that she "couldn't breathe when walking up the stairs".

But between series one and two of her BBC One comedy show Am I Being Unreasonable?, she completely overhauled her routine and dropped an incredible 63.5kgs. She started on the keto diet, but it was giving up alcohol - on Denise Welch's advice - that changed her life.

Daisy said on the BBC podcast How to Be in the Spotlight: "I was put on some medication for depression, Quetiapine. It slows your metabolism right down to a crawl and it makes you have the munchies 24/7. I was put on it just before I started This Country. What people weren't aware of is I'd always been a size 8 to 10. It was that medication that made me balloon."

She said that when she came off the medication, the reaction she got was: "Oh my God, she's so different and she's losing all this weight." Daisy added: "This was always who I was, so shedding all of that was great."

The star reiterated: "I haven't had any surgery. I did go in to have a consultation for a tummy tuck and the surgeon just scared the s*** out of me."

Daisy has confessed to having lip filler - but has avoided any more drastic measures.

She added to Grazia: "Well, now you've lost the weight you're not funny any more. What the f***? Why do women have to be f****** 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."