When Carrie Fisher was asked to reprise her famous role as Princess Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, she joked that "they hired me minus 35 pounds".
The actress, who died aged 60 following a cardiac arrest, revealed in 2014 that the role came with the condition that she lost weight.
Carrie Fisher at the premiere of The Force Awakens
At an event in LA held around the time that The Force Awakens started filming, she joked "I'm glad they are doing a new movie because they are sending a trainer to my house so I can get in really good shape."
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At the time, The Daily Mail reported that she'd lost weight on the Jenny Craig diet in 2011, and a People article from September 2016 suggested that she'd used the diet plan again that year.
Now, a fan has posted on Twitter speculating that this pressure to lose weight may have had a detrimental affect on her health.
The emotional post argues: "Try to bring up fatphobia as a contributing factor in her death, and people trip all over themselves to remind you of her drug use and history of other 'unhealthy' choices.
"I suppose it's too terrifying to think we're murdering our best and brightest just becasue we don't like the way parts of them look."
Dr Adam Simon, Chief Medical Officer of online GP service Push Doctor, told Closer that your diet can affect "any of your organs", but stressed that "it’s not necessarily helpful to start guessing what happened to cause Carrie Fisher’s tragic death.
"If your weight is up and down frequently, there is evidence to suggest that this can have an impact on the heart, particularly in postmenopausal women," he continued. "Some studies conclude that regularly gaining and losing weight can increase the chance of heart disease or a fatal cardiac arrest.
"The ‘overshoot theory’ suggests that the increased blood pressure, cholesterol and body fat we develop while overweight, is reduced when weight is lost, as you’d expect. However, if the weight is quickly piled back on, these factors don’t have long enough to return to their normal level. Each time your weight creeps up and then drops, you ‘base level’ of blood pressure and cholesterol gets slightly higher.
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"Consequently, you’re never truly healthy, even if you look good from the outside. Regular yo-yoing can cause this situation to get worse over time, even though you may not be able to see the signs."
It is important to bear in mind though that at present, there is no evidence to suggest that Fisher's dieting was unhealthy. The official cause of her death is still unknown - a postmortem has been performed, but according to TMZ, Los Angeles coroners have "deferred" reaching a conclusive verdict - and until the coroner finishes their investigations, the exact cause of death will remain unknown.
However, as her fans expressed on social media - it's a very sad thought that a much-loved star - not to mention mother, daughter and sister - may no longer be with us partly because of a pressure to be thin.
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