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In case you were wondering how Courtney Love got so skinny, her diet secret was recently revealed. She lost more than 40 pounds in three months by putting a lock on her fridge.

The 44-year-old star bolted her fridge and gave the key to her housekeeper in a bid to help her stick to the strict diet.She told Britain’s Grazia magazine: “I was at a charity event and my friend Sting said to me ‘Why don’t you do a body transformation?’ I was about to start working on a new album and I was feeling experimental. It made me wonder what it would be like to be skinny.

Courtney says losing weight is hard - she compared it to kicking a drugs addiction.

Courtney’s tough dieting regime includes two meal-replacement milkshakes a day for breakfast and lunch followed by steamed fish and vegetables for dinner.The diet has helped the actress-and-singer to lose 51lbs since Christmas and Courtney now weights 137lbs.

Courtney says she has no intention of losing any more weight and admits she gets fed up when her Hollywood friends say they need to slim down.

She said: “I was out to dinner with Gwyneth Paltrow and Drew Barrymore and Gwyneth said, ‘I’m fat.’ I was like, ‘I’m going to smack you. Shut up.’

“The first time I met Gwyneth I was really nasty to her because I was jealous. I felt inadequate.

“But I will never be a size zero because my ribs are too big. I also have a pretty big head so I wouldn’t look right. If I got under 120lbs that would be a problem - I’d start looking like a crazy person.” [Source]

Courtney also says she has tried the macrobiotic diet that so many celebrities are on, but it made her fat.

“I gained 40 to 50 pounds on macrobiotic food,” Love, who turns 43 on Monday, told PEOPLE Tuesday at the Givenchy Haute Couture autumn/winter show in Paris.

Her epiphany came after she did a photo shoot for Italian Vogue at 182 lbs. “At the time I had Gwyneth’s cook who does macro food,” she said.

“I thought, it can’t make me fat – he’s Gwyneth’s cook! [But] I saw those pictures and thought ‘Oh my God!’ 182 lbs. does not look good on me. Nothing fit.”

Her solution? “I put the non-Photoshopped pictures on my fridge and had a lock fixed on it. My daughter Frances has her carbs in one drawer. I don’t know where it is. I drink shakes and exercise my [butt] off. Isopure, no carbs – two shakes and one meal: fish. Fish and broccoli really does work!” [Source]

I had no new pictures of Courtney Love to put up, so I used this great video clip of her singing ‘Pacific Coast Highway‘ at House of Blues on June 1st, 2007. Enjoy it!

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