Miriam Margolyes, best known as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, has spoken candidly about her health battles, many of which she links to her lifelong struggle with weight. In an interview with Weekend Magazine, the 84-year-old actress admitted the toll her lifestyle has taken.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve let my body down,\u201d she said. \u201cI haven\u2019t taken care of it. I have to walk with a walker now. I wish I\u2019d done exercise. It\u2019s the most ghastly waste of time, except that it keeps you going. So, I\u2019m foolish.”<\/p>\n
When asked about Ozempic, a drug sometimes used for weight loss, Margolyes dismissed the idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s for diabetics. You shouldn\u2019t take medicine meant for people who are really sick. What I do think is we should not have food advertising on television.”<\/p>\n
Margolyes\u2019s update follows her recent admission that she \u201cdoesn\u2019t have long left to live\u201d after undergoing a heart procedure.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you know that you haven\u2019t got long to live, and I\u2019m probably going to die within the next five or six years, if not before, I\u2019m loath to leave behind performing,\u201d Margolyes told The Times, per The Mirror, in May.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s such a joy,\u201d she added. \u201cI yearn to play roles that don\u2019t confine me to wheelchairs, but I\u2019m just not strong enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Health struggles<\/p>\n
In May 2023, Margolyes was admitted to the Royal Brompton Hospital in London with a chest infection. Writing from her hospital bed, she updated fans on Facebook after undergoing a heart procedure.<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks to my precious friends who thought of me on TAVI DAY,\u201d she wrote. “I did survive and am still in The Royal Brompton Hospital certainly till Sunday. I am growing energy but it\u2019s still not quite me. I am putting this so you know how grateful I am for lovely messages.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cTAVI\u201d referred to a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation, a less invasive option than open-heart surgery.<\/p>\n
Speaking later on the Table Manners podcast with Jessie and Lennie Ware, she explained: “I\u2019ve got a cow\u2019s heart now. Well, not the whole heart. I\u2019ve had an aortic valve replaced by a cow\u2019s aortic valve.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how common it is. I\u2019d never heard of that operation,\u201d she added. \u201cBut it saves you from having open heart surgery, which would be infinitely more invasive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Margolyes has also been diagnosed with spinal stenosis, a condition that narrows the spinal canal and causes chronic pain and mobility issues.<\/p>\n
Talking to Closer Magazine in 2023, she described her daily struggles.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t walk very well, and I\u2019m registered disabled,\u201d she said. \u201cI use all kinds of assistance. I\u2019ve got two sticks and a walker, and they\u2019re such a bore, but I\u2019ve just got a mobility scooter, which is a lot of fun.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miriam Margolyes, best known as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, has spoken candidly about her health…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[96438,1198,36552,210,96436,427,96437,96439,67,132,68,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-168292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-benefits-of-exercising","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-harry-potter","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-miriam-margolyes","13":"tag-ozempic","14":"tag-professor-sprout","15":"tag-unhealthy-lifestyle","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-weight-loss"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115076235632319022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}