Emmerdale's Lisa Riley compares herself to Adele after incredible 12st weight loss
Lisa Riley has shed an incredible 12 stones in weight and has said that she hopes to inspire others to do so as well as empathising with how Adele is feeling
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Lisa Riley has compared her incredible weight loss to that of Adele's as she speaks out after shedding 12 stone in recent years.
The 44-year-old Emmerdale actress is building up to marrying her fiancé Al, which has given her a focus to losing weight in such a dramatic fashion.
She has just celebrated 30 years in showbusiness, in which she became a viewer favourite on the ITV soap, playing Mandy Dingle.
Lisa is determined that her weight loss does not overshadow her on-screen achievements, like she thinks that Adele's singing career is taking a back seat to her body transformation.
Speaking to The Sun, Lisa said that she has found it saddening that people seemingly talk about how much weight has lost and not how many Grammy awards as a singer has won.
The soap actress has said that she didn't want her time to be all about how she has lost weight either.
Lisa said: “It’s as if we are going to forget how many Grammys she has won and all of a sudden go, ‘She has lost an awful lot of weight’.
"Let’s talk about her talent and how phenomenal she is.
"Of course she looks stunning, amazing and sensational but it’s about how she has turned a corner in her life — just as I did when mum died."
Lisa said that during that time she became "petrified of developing Type 2 diabetes" and she believes that Adele would have had a similar "light bulb moment that triggered her, too.”
Lisa said that she has "never felt better" and is loving that she is "curvy" and is particularly impressed with her bum.
She revealed that they joke on the Emmerdale set that while her backside "might not be J-Lo" she is pleased that "it's mine!"
Lisa has warned that everyone should "live the life they want to" and that "nobody has any rights to judge a person about the way they look.”
Lisa first joined Emmerdale in 1995 as a barmaid in the Woolpack and had a testing relationship with village vet, Paddy Kirk.
By 2001, Lisa was looking for another challenge and she left the Dales behind for a slot on the Loose Women panel and voicing You've Been Framed among the different opportunities she embraced.
She returned to Emmerdale last year, after an 18 year break, and couldn't be happier with where she is right now.
Her weight loss journey really began on her run to finishing fifth on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.
Lisa was determined to prove to everyone that she wasn't a "chunky monkey" and lost four stones on the show, as well as becoming the first female contestant to lift her male dance partner.
Lisa took takeaways and junk food out of her life and turned to cooking her own healthier meals and started exercising.
This brought her down from size 30 to size 14 in just under two under two years and hopes it will help others do the same.
She added: "I love the fact I can inspire people to be healthy and make them believe that if they want to make it happen they can. But I have given so much more to people and my career.”
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