Miranda Hart opens up about weight gain shame as she confirms she has a secret illness [Video]

Comedian Miranda Hart has revealed she has been battling a secret illness in a new video message to her fans on social media.

In a candid post on Instagram, the actor discussed the “shame” she had felt from gaining weight over the past three years. She explained that the changes to her body had come from an illness, which she did not reveal.

Promoting her new book, I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You, Hart accompanied the post with a caption that read: “I have found it incredibly hard not to feel shame from gaining weight over the last three years.

“Not because of striving for an aesthetic ideal but because it doesn’t represent me and who I naturally am. But life happens. Illness happens.”

In the footage, the TV star joked …