This Country star Daisy May Cooper’s incredible weight-loss transformation: Actress shed 10st by following brutal keto diet, ditching booze and kicking her ‘miserable food addiction’

She’s best known for playing the hilarious, tracksuit and puffer coat-wearing Kerry Mucklowe in This Country.But Daisy May Cooper has been open about, as well as stunning fans with, her 10st weight loss and lip filler transformation.The actress, 40, has been setting tongues wagging with her slimmed-down look – and yet revealed that online trolling has meant she no longer owns a phone due and gets her PA to run her Instagram account.She said in a recent interview: ‘People are so f***ing horrible and mean and say such horrible things, I just can’t even go near [her phone].’Ms Cooper dropped from a size 24 to a size 10 by following the ultra-low-carb keto diet for the last few years.She previously said: ‘I’m so for body positivity but when I was at my biggest I was at my most miserable and I had a massive food addiction. ‘I wasn’t healthy. I couldn’t breathe when I was walking up the stairs. I was so unhappy.’ Daisy May Cooper, pictured right in 2019, previously said: ‘I’m so for body positivity but when I was at my biggest I was at my most miserable and I had a massive food addiction’  Ms Cooper, pictured last year, dropped from a size 24 to a size 10 by following the ultra low-carb keto diet for the last few yearsShe recently said the comments which hurt the most were when people told her she wasn’t funny any more because of her new appearance.Ms Cooper, who is starring on Prime Video’s the Last One Laughing Halloween special, told The Independent: ‘That made me really panic actually. I thought, “F***. 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.’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.’Discussing her appearance, Ms Cooper told the BBC podcast How To Be In The Spotlight: ‘I’ve had some messages like, ‘Well, now you’ve lost the weight you’re not funny any more.”What the f**k? Why do women have to be f**king fat to be funny? That makes me so angry. I champion anybody. I think everybody should be happy with their body. But I wasn’t.’She told The Independent that ‘at her worst’ she was a size 24 and would get chest pains and be out of breath from walking up stairs.It comes after Ms Cooper said she was ‘terrified’ of doing a This Country special with her brother Charlie, who played her on-screen cousin Kurtan, because they would probably have to address her weight loss.She told The Times: ‘I’ve had my lips done and I’ve lost so much weight. Would we say my character’s had a tapeworm?’ Ms Cooper said she asked herself: ‘Will I be scratched off people’s lists when they go, “She can’t be the funny big one?”  She described being ‘terrified’ of doing any kind of This Country special with her brother Charlie, who played her on-screen cousin KurtanMs Cooper started losing weight in 2021, the same year that she split from her husband of two years, Will Weston, who is also the father of her two eldest children – daughter Pip, born in 2018, and son Jack Michael, born in 2020.She has since gone on to get engaged to Anthony Huggins and the pair welcomed a son named Benji together in June 2024.After her divorce, Ms Cooper admitted ‘there wasn’t real love there,’ before going on to have a short relationship with chef Ryan Weymouth.She then met artist and DJ Anthony Huggins on the dating app Hinge, before welcoming a son, Benji, in 2024 and confirming that she and Mr Huggins was engaged the following year.The writer, who grew up in a two-bedroom council house in Cirencester, explained that her weight gain was partly due to medication.She said: ‘I piled on all this weight. I couldn’t go upstairs without getting into a sweat and, when it was hot, my thighs would rub. ‘I was on quetiapine tablets for anxiety and depression and they made me hungry all the time. After deciding I wasn’t going to take them any more, the weight fell off.’Daisy recently lifted the lid on how her weight loss and lip filler delayed the filming of season two of Am I Being Unreasonable?Things didn’t quite go to plan after Daisy underwent a dramatic body transformation and various cosmetic ‘tweakments’ in the intervening period between series one airing and series two filming beginning.Reflecting on how she dealt with the continuity challenges on The Jonathan Ross Show, the comedian said: ‘Series one is meant to be 30 seconds before series two and in that 30 seconds I’ve lost about 10st and had my lips done. ‘I saw the rushes and I said to the BBC, ‘God, we’re going to have a disclaimer at the beginning saying – Daisy has had her lips done, go with it and please don’t judge.”  Ms Cooper is starring on the Last One Laughing Halloween special on Prime Video (seen top right) Despite initially following the keto diet, Ms Cooper admitted that although it worked, she ‘would not recommend it’  Ms Cooper started losing weight in 2021, the same year that she split from her husband of two years, Will Weston (the two pictured in 2018) Am I Being Unreasonable? is a surreal comedy following two women who enjoy a fun-loving life, before things begin to turn pear-shaped. Despite initially following the keto diet, Ms Cooper admitted that although it worked, she ‘would not recommend it’.The TV personality told the Daily Mail she developed kidney stones, explaining that it was ‘because all I was eating was meat and cheese, like Henry VIII’.She added: ‘The pressure on women to lose weight – at any cost – it’s insane. It’s horrendous.’Ms Cooper also gave up drinking four years ago, which massively contributed to a healthier lifestyle.She told The Times: ‘I was using it to self-medicate. I didn’t think I had a problem. I was desperate to get my daughter to bed so that I could have a wine. ‘Then I’d drink so much that I would see four screens when I was watching a film and I would text ex-boyfriends. I had crippling anxiety the next day. ‘Having a clear conscience now is amazing – waking up in the morning and thinking I didn’t go to a work function and try to s**g the boss.’