'I LOSTOVER 12st with weight-loss jabs'

Legendary actor Whoopi Goldberg talks about her career, weight loss and turning 70

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Whoopi Goldberg is a woman who needs little introduction. From Sister Act to Star Trek: The Next Generation and her Oscar-winning turn in Ghost, there are few people who will not have come across her in their lives.

Now, at 69, she's feeling great. Working on new projects, including a rumoured Sister Act 3, and looking trimmer than ever thanks to weight-loss jabs, Whoopi is far from heading to retirement. Woman caught up with her to talk all about it.

Hi Whoopi, how are you? You look great.

I've lost some weight. I lost about 180 pounds [over 12st].

You never looked big to begin with...

My clothes are always big, so no-one can ever tell what's going on under there. I had to do those shots [skinny jabs] because I got sciatica. I had smashed the vertebrae in between the bones, doing something I told people specifically not to do, which was to run on wet grass.

What happened?

I was running like Fred Flintstone and I slipped, went up in the air, did a flip, and came back to the ground. For weeks, I was walking around, not knowing how much damage I had actually done, and they gave me steroids which made me very bad. So, when I made the film