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Carrie Fisher’s weight war

Almost 30 years after she donned that skimpy metal bikini to play Princess Leia in Star Wars, Carrie Fisher is ready to do it again, having lost an amazing 25kgs.“I would try to get into one. If they dig one up for me, I would try,” she says.

“I want to get back in it and walk around the house like an idiot. You know, answer the doorbell [and say], ‘What, this old thing?’” Carrie, 54, a reformed drug and alcohol addict whose emotional eating has caused her weight to balloon over the years, enlisted the help of Jenny Craig in December last year when she felt so “humiliated” by her size-18 frame she wouldn’t leave home.

Read more in this week’s Woman’s Day, on sale Monday, August 29.

Carrie joined Jenny Craig late last year and has gone from this…

…to this!

The actress has lost an amazing 25 kilos.

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