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" Actress Melissa McCarthy looked gorgeous at last night&amp;#039;s 2015 People&amp;#039;s Choice Awards in Los Angeles, showing off her new slimmer figure on the red carpet, in a stylish leather-trimmed black suit. Melissa has reportedly lost an incredible 45 pounds - just over 3 stone - over the past few months and she looked chuffed with her new look as she smiled for the cameras. It&amp;#039;s no surprise she&amp;#039;s looking pleased. Melissa decided to try and tone up to improve her health for the sake of her children, according to reports and it seems she&amp;#039;s doing it right. Rather than jumping onto the quickest crash diet she could find, it&amp;#039;s thought that Melissa has taken time to adapt her lifestyle with healthy eating and exercise and it&amp;#039;s obviously paying off.  &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s been making small changes and seeing big results. It&amp;#039;s given her a real confidence boost,&amp;quot; a source reportedly told Star back in November.  But Melissa is allegedly keen to keep her natural curves and has been focusing more on her health than slimming down, the source claims. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s not obsessed with dieting. She&amp;#039;s looking for a happy medium. &amp;quot;Melissa realised she wasn&amp;#039;t being as healthy as she could be. She wants to set a good example for her kids and she wants to be around to become a grandmother too.&amp;quot;  We&amp;#039;ve always loved Melissa for being a body confidence hero and refusing to change purely for others, so it&amp;#039;s great to know she&amp;#039;s making positive changes for herself, rather than bowing to any unfair Hollywood pressures.  She told People last summer: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never felt like I needed to change. I&amp;#039;ve always thought, &amp;#039;If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  As much as we&amp;#039;re fully behind her desire to be healthy though, let&amp;#039;s not lose sight of the fact her weight has nothing to do with her brain, her talent and her ability to make us LOL - and whatever her size, that&amp;#039;s what we love her for.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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