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Carrie Fisher was sent to a fat farm before appearing in 1977's Star Wars.

The 60-year-old actress says she was told to lose weight before taking on her role as Princess Leia in the first installment of the popular science fiction franchise.

Asked by The Late Show host Stephen Colbert if she was told she had to shed the pounds before filming, she said: 'They did ... they always do. They want to hire part of me, not all of me. So they want to hire about three fourths ... so I have to get rid of the fourth somehow.'

She had to diet: Carrie Fisher was sent to a fat farm before appearing in 1977's Star Wars

Funny: Asked by The Late Show host Stephen Colbert if she was told she had to shed the pounds before filming, she said: 'They did ... they always do. They want to hire part of me, not all of me'

She added: 'The first movie I had, I guess you’d still call it baby fat. I would like to call it that, but it was probably just fat. So I went to a fat farm where they harvest fat.

'I was there and Lady Bird Johnson and Ann Landers, who were my peers at the time.

'Lady Bird couldn’t figure out the name of the movie I was going to be in - kept thinking it was Car Wash. Ann Landers had a lot of advice for me, which obviously I didn’t take.' 

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She lost even more weight for this: Fisher had to wear this bikini for Return Of The Jedi

Meanwhile, Carrie previously revealed she had to lose two-and-a-half stone to reprise her role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

She said: 'Nothing changes, it's an appearance-driven thing. I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say get younger, because that's how easy it is.'

She then said: 'When I do lose the weight I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am. My problem is they talk to me like an actress but I hear them like a writer.'

This comes after the star revealed in her new book The Princess Diarist that she had a fling with Harrison Ford when she was married to his first wife.

Shocker: This comes after the star revealed in her new book The Princess Diarist that she had a fling with Harrison Ford when she was married to his first wife

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