Ken Barlow’s new love curiosity Helen Lederer, 69, says she lived off slimming drugs for years and wine in a determined bid to be skinny: ‘It was really like I used to be dwelling the Ab Fab life’

Ken Barlow’s new love curiosity Helen Lederer has revealed the drastic lengths she went to be skinny. 

The Completely Fabulous actress, 69, who is about to look on Coronation Road subsequent week as Ken’s date Elspeth, admitted she took slimming drugs for years and lived on a weight-reduction plan of 400 energy a day and wine. 

Helen noticed her weight yo-yo from a dimension 10 to a dimension 16 all through her profession and stated: ‘It was really like I used to be dwelling the Ab Fab life: I’m the muggins who’s actually doing it.’ . 

‘I used to be no stranger to testing one thing out if I wanted to drop pounds, I didn’t care how I did it,’ the actress stated in a brand new interview with The Solar. 

‘I would have phases of happening and off slimming drugs for a few years. After they labored, I assumed they have been nice, nevertheless it wouldn’t be lengthy earlier than your coronary heart was racing.

Ken Barlow’s new love curiosity Helen Lederer has revealed the drastic lengths she went to be skinny

The actress, 69, who is about to look on Coronation Road subsequent week as Ken’s date Elspeth, admitted she took slimming drugs for years and lived on a weight-reduction plan of 400 energy a day and wine

‘I keep in mind there was a comedy collection I did in Scotland and I don’t assume I ate any meals as soon as whereas taking them, I simply drank a variety of wine. Now I look again and assume, “How?” However again then individuals simply did these items and received on with it.

Helen stated she turned to slimming drugs as she by no means has had a ‘mannequin determine’ and at all times wished the proper physique. 

The actress stated when she was at her skinniest she was ‘fed up’ and depressing’ and shortly put the burden she had misplaced again on. 

Helen stated the weight-loss jabs Ozempic and Wegovy  ‘sound like a dream come true’ and would have taken them had they been provided when she was youthful.

The medicine are so widespread in Hollywood that the makers of the weight-loss medicine have launched a marketing campaign pleading with influential individuals to cease utilizing them for ‘self-importance causes’, which has led to shortages affecting those that genuinely want them. 

Now, Helen has embraced her determine and stated of all of the ‘loopy lengths’ she went to: ‘you simply should overlook about it and get on with it’. 

Helen will hit the cobbles subsequent week the place she is going to participate in Ken’s courting storyline. 

‘I keep in mind there was a comedy collection I did in Scotland and I don’t assume I ate any meals as soon as whereas taking them, I simply drank a variety of wine’, she stated (pictured in 2004) 

Helen noticed her weight yo-yo from a dimension 10 to a dimension 16 all through her profession and stated: ‘It was really like I used to be dwelling the Ab Fab life’ (pictured left in 1980s, proper 2022) 

Helen (C) discovered fame in Ab Fab as Catorina, pictured with co-stars Joanna Lumley (L) and Harriet Thorpe (R)

Helen will hit the cobbles subsequent week the place she is going to participate in Ken’s courting storyline 

Identified for as soon as being the cobbles largest lothario (Invoice Roache) and determined to show he nonetheless can nonetheless woo the women on the age of 91, Ken embarks on pace courting. 

After being single for close to a decade following the loss of life of his beloved spouse Deirdre  in 2015, he catches the attention of fellow dater Elspeth (performed by Helen). 

Ken attends the pace courting occasion with ex-son in legislation Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson) and leaves the Taxi agency proprietor gutted when, regardless of his advancing age,  manages to outdo him within the romance stakes. 

Talking in regards to the position Helen, who will seem in a single Wednesday March 27, described her character as ‘ahead and daring’.

She additionally admitted that one of many largest attracts to taking the half was the chance to behave reverse Invoice, who has appeared on the cleaning soap because it’s first episode in 1960.

Saying: ‘I had met him as soon as earlier than after I sat subsequent to him at an occasion and I assumed what a beautiful man he was and so personable. So for me to be provided this transient position was a pleasure’.

And regardless of solely showing briefly Helen teased that Ken took Elspeth’s quantity throughout their scenes and she or he very properly return to the cleaning soap ought to he name.

In addition to enjoying Catriona in Ab Fab, the actress has additionally appeared in Hollyoaks, Celeb Massive Brother and  Agatha Christie’s Marple.