Evangeline LillyEvangeline Lilly admits bowing to the pressure to be thin in Hollywood after landing her role in Lost.

“I went from, ‘Yeah, I’m in shape and I can go to the beach’ to, ‘I’m going to be on national television and every ounce of body fat needs to go’.”

“I slimmed as hard as I could. I continue to.”

She also refuses to film nude scenes for the television show - insisting the scenes are rewritten so she can stay covered up.

“When I got the first draft of the pilot episode, there was a nude scene in there. So before I got the job I said to [Lost creator JJ Abrams], ‘You need to know I’m a bit of a prude and nudity is something that I’m going to be adamantly opposed to’.

“When we came to shoot the scene, it had been re-written for me to be in a tank top and underwear.”