Lily Allen: Heart Murmur Diagnosis Prompted Weight Loss

Lily Allen spoke with Grazia magazine about the scary reasons behind her recent weight loss. “I found out I had a heart murmur about three months ago,” Allen revealed. “I had switched doctors and just went for a routine check up, which is when they discovered I had this irregular murmur. I have been asthmatic all my life, but this was really quite scary. When they asked me how much exercise I did, I had to be honest and say hardly any.” Allen apparently was advised to reverse that lazy trend, which prompted her newly slim figure. “I really want to stress that I haven’t done this because I want to become some skinny minnie – I will never be like that,” the 22-year-old singer songwriter insisted. “I just like being more toned, it has made me really happy and I know I will never be super skinny because I would never be happy.” Read more.