Miranda Hart reveals she has gained weight during lockdown in a RAP

Miranda Hart has released a rap about putting on weight in lockdown.

The actress, 47, shared an amusing clip featuring her new song to both Instagram and Twitter on Tuesday, as she admitted she was ‘over [her] weight’ in quarantine and wanted to make the song for her ‘love of clowning’.

Dancing to the upbeat track while wearing a hoodie and jogging bottoms, she said: ‘I’ve put on weight. I am over my weight. 

‘Over my weight, for me, I don’t say overweight for that dictates a universal way woman need to be. 

‘And that’s not right, but it’s right if I want to lose weight for me, because I feel, I don’t know, uncomfortable and tight, and that’s not right. 

‘We need to be true to who we are, in all the ways, the standard and the bizarre. But even with the self-acceptance that flows through me, I still, like this, feel like hiding, like despite the weight gain I am somehow less.

She concluded the rap by saying: ‘But no and bear with, for I say with respectful loving kindness that I’ve always been, and I always will be, a work in progress.’

On Instagram she joked about the video by saying: ‘It’s contemporary dance, it’s poetry, it’s middle class rap, it’s got it all.

‘It’s combining my love of clowning with my love of the self-love journey to wellbeing. We are all a work in progress. 

‘There’s no standard to get to before you feel deserving of starting your life or letting go of shame. Life is not linear. 

‘Life is bitter sweet and everyday can hold dark and light. We need to let ourselves unfold day by day in love, kindness and respect. 

‘As we free ourselves to be audaciously self-accepting we free others to be the same, and we become better versions of ourselves to help others and make change. 

‘You are beautiful where you are right now in your life. Allow yourself to always be a work in progress.’

Miranda then claimed on Twitter that she didn’t originally intend to post the footage on the social media app, as it ‘doesn’t feel as jolly and kind a place’.

However she decided to share the video in any case as she wanted to promote body positivity with fans, and tell them: ‘We don’t need to get to a standard to reduce shame or start our life.’

Miranda rose to fame thanks to her self-titled BBC sitcom, which she wrote and starred in and aired from 2009 to 2015 over three seasons.