Pauline Quirke was overweight because she was `greedy`
The 52-year-old actress - who recently lost eight stone in 12 months - insists she had no-one to blame for her weight but herself.
In her new autobiography titled `Where Have I Gone?` as excerpted in the Daily Mirror, the `Emmerdale` star says her slim-down came about because she was `bored` of being big.
In a diary entry from June 2010, she wrote: "I`m not big-boned or pleasantly plump, I`m just fat! And I got this fat all by myself, because I`m greedy. I eat and drink too much and I exercise too little."
Weighing in at almost 280lbs, Pauline admits her full-figure not only damaged her confidence, but also her health.
She said: "I was tired of not being able to find clothes to fit, tired of sunbathing on a hotel balcony on holiday because I was too self-conscious to sit by the pool.
"Because I was overweight, I was unhealthy. I`d had a disc removed in 1991, I had diabetes in 1994 when I was pregnant with my son Charlie and had to have a hip replacement in 2009. Then I had a fall and fractured an ankle that wouldn`t heal properly."
But things came to a head when she had to ask for a seatbelt extension whilst taking a flight to Majorca with husband Steve Sheen.
She explained: "On the plane I tugged the seatbelt across my body and felt its metal buckle cutting in. Discreetly as I could, I summoned the petrifyingly slim stewardess. `Could I have an extension belt, please?` I muttered.
"She made her way towards me, brandishing it aloft. I saw pity in her eyes. And I wanted to die. In truth, nobody else knew what was going on. Nobody cared.
But I knew, and that was enough. It was time I sorted myself out."
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