Kelly: Being skinny was more stressful

Soprano threatened to beat Weinstein to pulp

KELLY Clarkson says she felt “more pressure” in the music industry when she was THIN.

The Since U Been Gone singer, 38, ( below) revealed she used to be shown magazine covers of naked women and told “this is what you’re competing with”.

Kelly, who won the first season of American

Idol in 2002, said: “I felt more pressure from people actually when I was thin, when I was really thin and not super healthy, because I was worn out, working so hard and not keeping healthy habits.

“But I felt more pressure – it was more of magazines shoved in front of you and, ‘ This is what you’re competing with and we’ve got to compete with it’. I can’t compete with that.

“That’s not even my image. That’s not who I am. That’s who they are.

“We’re all different and it’s OK. I fought more when I was thinner than I do now.

“I’m happy in my life. I’ll work on me in my time!’’

JAMES Gandolfini once became so upset with Harvey Weinstein that he wanted to “beat the f** k” out of The perv mogul.

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Gandolfini’s co- star Steve Schirripa recalled a moment when the deceased burly actor wanted to beat up Weinstein because the since- disgraced movie tycoon kept pressuring him to appear on late- night talk shows.

According to Schirripa, Gandolfini ( – who died of a heart attack in 2013 – didn’t want to do these sorts of shows because he didn’t think he was “interesting”.

After Gandolfini starred in the Weinstein Company’s 2012 film

Schirripa remembers sitting in the late actor’s trailer and hearing him complain about

Weinstein nagging him to promote the film on

Schirripa said: “He said, ‘ Harvey Weinstein keeps calling, he wants me to do and I said no’.

“He got f** king nasty with Jim. And Jim said, ‘ I will beat the f** k out of Harvey Weinstein! He f** king calls me again, I will beat the f** k out of him! For the money he paid me, I’m not f** king doing it!’

“And this is before all the Weinstein shit when he was still king shit.”