DAISY May Cooper has revealed her 10-stone weight loss sparked worries she’d struggle to secure more screen roles.
The actress, 40, has regularly revealed her svelte new look after embracing the Keto diet, dropping from a size 24 to a size 10.
Though after embracing an eating pattern of low carb, high fat meals, she told how she was concerned she’d be “scratched off people’s lists” for castings.
The This Country screen star told The Independent: “That made me really panic actually.
“I thought, ‘F**k. Is that going to affect me casting-wise?’
“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”.
She added: “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”.
She also told how she doesn’t have a mobile phone – and instead lets her PA take on her admin – due to fears of trolling.
Daisy added: “People are so f**king horrible and mean and say such horrible things, I just can’t even go near it”.
Previously, she told how her hit show This Country could not continue after her significant weight loss.
Daisy made a name for herself playing Kerry Mucklowe in the BBC mockumentary-style sitcom, which followed the lives of herself and cousin Kurtan – played by her real-life brother Charlie.
The series aired from 2017 to 2020 and she joked that the show cannot make a return unless her character “had a tapeworm”, following her astonishing health transformation.
Since the show ended in 2020, Daisy’s appearance has dramatically changed and she has lost ten stone.
She told Radio Times: “We can’t do This Country, though, because I’ve lost so much weight and I’ve had my lips done.
“We’d have to say that Kerry’s had a tapeworm and been stung by a bee.”
Last week, she told how she feared the success of the show caused her parents to split.
