Miriam Margolyes Reveals She Hates Her Body And Breaks Holly's Heart | This Morning

right now she's not apologetically honest and brilliantly confident but beneath it all Miriam uglies have admitted to spending a lifetime worrying about her weight well it's a subject that she's taking on in a new documentary which she hopes is gonna tackle the nation's obesity crisis now welcome back I mean this is actually just hearing you say those words and I didn't believe you could be fat unhappy this is really a personal journey for you this documentary isn't it oh yes that's why I wanted to do it yeah because it matters to me and I know that there's an awful lot of fat people out there because obesity is believe me a bigger epidemic than the one that's we're going through now the figures are absolutely incredible it cost the NHS 6 billion pounds a year that's more than the police the fire and the judicial services combined and so it is definitely an issue and for you and the thing is with you you've never had a problem talking about yourself you've never had a problem being honest and so but has it been an issue for you of course it has I know what I look like I mean even when I saw myself just then in that clip because I've never seen that before and I thought god what a hideous hideous looking person but I know I'm a decent person so I try to get over it but I know what I look like and I hate it I love my face but I hate my body that's the truth and isn't that does it make you sad it makes me I'm with myself you know because I think why why should i why should I be 78 and not learn to be thin yeah it's but in the course of the program that I made I learn that it's not just something I should blame myself for well it's a disease it's an addiction and there is there's other sort of things that play here a little bit as well because you know society is obsessed with images of the perfect body how you should look what you should eat you should be instagramming your meals that look perfect but also at the same time we've kind of got access food 24-hours cheap food quick food and it's advertised all the time yeah I know I'm on ITV and that's how we all make our money but it's wrong people don't need to be persuaded to eat we eat we have to eat to stay alive so why are we were having advertisements pushing food at us and save the chicken Kiev okay for you are you one of those people that has done the dieting thing or oh I've done everything darling yes except I haven't had bariatric medicine when you meant to come that was something that we talk about in the program and I wouldn't do that what was the what was your thought when you did when you discussed it with those women my thought was how sad I feel for them that they feel it necessary to have an operation to achieve the body that is acceptable I I just think that's wrong I still think it's wrong even though I loved the people I talked to I met some wonderful people and I want to say hello particularly to Angela who I believe will be watching because she's the guest I had who who has a leg amputated and she can't walk because of being fat and it's really tough for her so she's she's so brave and she's she's not had chocolate since we did our program and I'm so proud of that yeah um I'll be okay using the word fat because we've spoken about this what else are you gonna say well this is a very good point I mean that we said it if you weren't here and you weren't using that word yourself if we said that we'd be in a lot of trouble well I'm sorry I think that's silly well you what would you say you'd say way larger or portly well that's portly I don't think really poly actually I think you were you wheat you have to now be very generic you know you have to be careful you have to be kind we should be kind but everybody should be able to use the word fat and not died when they use it it is a real word it's what I am look at me it's it's awful this belly I I try to disguise it new I'll go what we love you just as you are by the way I'm thrilled and grateful that you say that and it's very touching I just wish that I could be as perfect in my body as I am in my soul and so at the end at the end of these two shows that you've done tonight and tomorrow 9:00 o'clock bbc2 precise 9 o'clock BBC Two's I'd get that over yeah um it's a real resolution for you and your head and your body not really not really a resolution a determination to keep going I'm now going back to the to the way that I had before which was don't eat till Hoppus 12:00 and don't eat after 6:00 that I think will help me because otherwise I'll just get fatter and fatter and I'll die well I might die anyway but so we're all gonna die eventually no I I don't think it has resolved but it's helped me because I've seen other people going through it yeah but you also you seem to eat really healthy as well you're eating radishes you're eating raw onions and apples yes I know I and of course it does make me expel air so I must say you can say fart I do eat healthily and I do believe in free-range chicken and taking taking care with food yeah but I don't know if it's a it's a problem it's a big problem and that's something else you feel very strongly and passionately about is that and is funny cuz I'm saying facts people I felt bad saying myself shouldn't suffer abuse it'll be the kind of bus of people's jokes and you've had your own experience oh yes oh yes people are always laughing and making silly jokes or when I go by the go work Hey like that it's not kind it's not we wouldn't do it to Blacks and Jews and cripples we don't make fun of them so don't do it to fat people understand we know we're fat and it hurts and if we get on the tube give us a seat well I was gonna say because you know that does it does have can be useful sometimes because when the general oh yes when the gentleman didn't give you a seat I sat on him well I have not I don't think because I'm that I have a spinal condition which means I can't stand without pain it really hurts to stand yeah and so when they go in the tube people don't want you to sit next to them because you're fat and you you're taking up space but in when you're in pain I should be offered a seat anybody I need us I didn't you think they else I said please um would you let me sit down and he said you know he just sort of in and so I sat on him did he get up pretty quickly he didn't stay under the margulies for long well we think you're beautiful inside and the bottom we adore having you here thank you Miriam's big fat adventure it starts tonight at 9:00 on BBC two and then continues tomorrow please come back and see us soon and there will be a picture of you on the oh no contemporary one so it's not quite as big as the others don't you aren't killed you're already up there that's really nice next time you come in there'll be a much bigger one you

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Length: 8min 35sec (515 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 09 2020