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Lily Allen: 'I used to starve myself before shooting music videos'

Songstress Lily Allen has revealed that she has a different outlook on her career now that she's made her comeback and shot the video for her single 'Hard Out Here' as she was and without dieting before hand. 

Speaking to ELLE magazine, the beauty made the shocking confession that she would often starve herself before getting in front of a camera because she was so wary of how she looked, but admitted that she won't be doing that again in the future:

"I felt quite brave shooting the 'Hard out Here' video. In all my past videos and photo shoots I've starved myself for days to get into what I felt was a good enough shape. But in this one, I was wearing leggings!"

"And a skin-tight T-shirt and a bra over the top - you can see the bulge! It wasn't necessarily pretty, but I felt very strongly that I wanted to do that. Because I'm a woman now, and I have two babies, and I don't want to hide it."

Allen added that being a mother is more important to her than slogging it out at the gym so she's content with herself at the moment: "I could be skinny if I wanted to, by exercising a lot, and I just don't have the time right now. Every second I'm not working I'm spending with my children. For me to take another extra hour and a half out of my day to get thin, I'm not doing it."

 

 

 

 

 

Listen to her new single, 'Air Balloon', below: