Daisy May Cooper unveils 10-stone weight loss as she makes dazzling return to screens

Daisy May Cooper is a force of nature and never fails to make us cackle.

The Gloucestershire-born actress, 40, is currently starring on Prime's Last One Laughing, where she looks nothing short of glamorous, rocking waist-length platinum tresses and a minidress-and-boot combination we are seriously taking notes from.

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Over the last couple of years, Daisy has transformed her appearance, the star openly discussing her impressive 10-stone weight loss she underwent following her rise to fame in This Country.

"I'm so for body positivity, but when I was at my biggest I was at my most miserable, and I had a massive food addiction," Daisy told The Independent.

Adding: "I wasn't healthy. I couldn't breathe when I was walking up the stairs. I was so unhappy."

Daisy told The Times that she gained a significant amount of weight as a side effect of medication for anxiety and depression. 

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"I piled on all this weight. I couldn't go upstairs without getting into a sweat and, when it was hot, my thighs would rub. 

"I was on quetiapine tablets for anxiety and depression, and they made me hungry all the time. After deciding I wasn't going to take them any more, the weight fell off."

Daisy discusses the downside of losing weight

Despite Daisy's incredible weight loss, it did come with worries that it would have an impact on her career.

"That made me really panic, actually. I thought, [expletive]. Is that going to affect me casting-wise?

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"Will I be scratched off people's lists when they go, 'She can't be the funny big one?' It's so mad that as women we even have to think about that.

"It is women, and it's still a thing. There's also that thing where people are just shaming you for wanting to feel better and be healthy."

In fact, Daisy has revealed how her weight loss has actually inspired a whole new cohort of trolls, so much so that she no longer uses her own social media, and instead gets her PA to handle it.

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Daisy told the BBC podcast How To Be In The Spotlight: "I've had some messages like, 'Well, now you've lost the weight you're not funny any more.'

"What the [expletive]? Why do women have to be [expletive] 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."