EastEnders’ Letitia Dean shows off jaw-dropping weight-loss as she enjoys night on town

Letitia Dean, a dancer, celebrated her recent weight loss at Monday night’s Inside Soap Awards.

At the glitzy showbiz bash, the Sharon Mitchell actress wore a sleek black dress with her EastEnders co-stars. The 57-year-old was seen leaving the awards ceremony hand-in-hand with a friend, all smiles following the BBC soap’s successful night.

Letitia, who has been on EastEnders since 1985, beamed as she posed for several photos with her coworkers on the red carpet after receiving the Best Showstopper Award. The Christmas Day episode of the soap earned the award for allowing Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) to kill Keanu Taylor (Danny Walters) and stoke the ongoing murder plot of “The Six.”

Letitia hasn’t had a good look in a while, as she has done for other people. She’s dropped four dress sizes in four months. In a statement released in 2022, Letitia revealed how harsh online trolls had targeted her and how she has struggled with body image and weight over the years.

“I had a lot of terrible things said about me.” She’s too fat, the other actors complain they can’t fit on the same set with her’, she revealed on the spin-off show Secrets from the Square. The actress, who was only 17 when the show first aired, was one of the original cast members.

Since she was a young child, Letitia has been subjected to constant criticism of her body image, which has damaged her self-confidence and resulted in her having a breast reduction as a teen. Letitia admitted that she made the wrong choice despite the fact that there were also health-related reasons for it.

In a candid chat with Hello! Backache had a lot to do with that decision, according to the actress, who opened up about her personal struggles in the magazine back in October 2001. “She later admitted to feeling the pressure of public scrutiny, noting:” Occasionally, the attention on my appearance still bothers me – it bothers all women, doesn’t it? – but I have those things in perspective nowadays. “

Letitia joined forces with dancer Darren Bennett in the Strictly Come Dancing dance floor in 2007 after leaving her soap roles in the roles of Sharon and Sharon between 2001 and 2006. The BBC actress admitted to Closer that watching the show made her lose weight.

The soap legend admitted, “I felt great by the conclusion of the show and the live tour because I had great feelings.” However, I wanted to change my figure because I was so sick of doing extreme dieting and losing weight. I just woke up one morning, and I’d had enough. My weight had yo-yoed up and down for years and years, as long as I can recall. I’d follow popular diets like Atkins, or I’d stick to eggs.

Despite quickly dropping weight on these diets, as she claimed to be able to” lose a stone in a couple of weeks”, the result was never permanent, leading her to lament”, slip back into my old ways and put it all on again”. She dramatically changed when she appeared in the 2008 High School Musical stage adaptation, where she shed two stone, moving from 10st 4lbs to an impressive 8st 3lbs, and impressively shedding four dress sizes.

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Source: Mirror