Meg is used in fake promo for diet pills

MEGHAN Markle last night demanded the removal of “illegal” online adverts using her photos and a fake interview to sell diet pills.

The scam uncovered by the Sunday People features bogus quotes from the Duchess of Sussex saying she is “obsessed” with weight loss and claims that she fell out with the Royal Family over the slimming supplements.

A spokesman for Meghan thanked us for alerting her to the promotion for “keto fat burners”, which cost £19.99 for 60.

A royal source said: “This is obviously not true and an illegal use of the duchess’s name for advertising purposes and we will follow our normal course of action.”

In a fake interview, the swindlers said the keto pills were Meghan’s “passion project”, cruelly borrowing a phrase she actually used to describe a charity cookbook for the Grenfell fire victims.

In an “interview” published on a site called First Level Fitness, Meghan, 38, who gave birth to son Archie in May, is quoted saying: “I am no different from any other women in the world. Post pregnancy my body had lost its shape.

“But, with keto body tone I came back. No women deserves to be out of shape.”

The page links to an online form to buy the pills branded as “Keto Advanced Weight Loss”.

False before and after videos featuring pictures of the duchess were uploaded to Youtube by the First Level Fitness account.

First Level describes itself as a “one stop fitness site”, but many of its pages are dedicated to selling male sex drugs. Sellers ers claim the “Meghan” pills “melt fat fast without diet or exercise”.

But experts warned against taking them. Tam Fry, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, said: “Nobody, but nobody, should go near diet pills advertised on the web. If you want to diet it should be mandatory to seek advice from regulated professionals and use what they recommend.”

A page on another website claims Meghan spoke of the “Keto” pills’ benefits to a US publication called Entertainment Today, which does not exist.

The Duchess is quoted as saying: “All my life I’ve been passionate about taking care of my weight due to the pressures of

Hollywood to stay young and look fit.

“The culmination is the launch of my all female-owned weight loss line.

“The Royal Family is not happy with me splitting my time up. Being so turned off by the reaction of their power move I have decided to pursue my new weight loss line.”

The duchess has not publicly discussed her weight since she began dating Prince Harry in 2016.

The pills take their name from the keto diet, which puts the body into a state of ketosis, burning fat rather than glucose.

Nutritionist May Simpkins, of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine, warned: “Customers can’t be sure of the ingredients or who they are buying from.”

First Level Fitness and other sites running the fake endorsements did not respond to requests for comment.