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Dawn French: I have body blindness

Comedienne can't get herself motivated to lose weight

Dawn French is happy with her curves

Dawn French believes she has a disorder that prevents her from wanting to lose weight.

The Vicar Of Dibley actress, who is a size 20, struggles to motivate herself.

‘I think the medical term for my condition is called “body blindness,”' she reveals.

'I may ultimately regret not looking after myself more, and plenty of people would line up to tell me that, but it doesn’t concern me.’

Dawn, 51, admits that there are times when she thinks she ought to be more physically active, but never does anything about it.

‘Sometimes I’ll get out of bed and think, “Oooh, I need to do some exercise” - but that’s probably about once a year, if that,' she tells Woman's Weekly.

‘I can honestly say it doesn’t bother me, though I do worry that I’ll get so comfortably fat that I won’t be able to walk anymore.'

Siobhan Baranian