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I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

I thought I'd become an actress, but then I realized I eat too much.

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

If you're an actress, you're always on one diet or another - it's a way of life.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.

I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.

I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.

Actors travel a lot and work long hours, and sometimes you eat at odd hours, so I have to work out to keep my weight at the same level.