HEALTH WARNING FORCED MISSY TO DIET.

Rapper MISSY ELLIOTT trimmed down her bulky figure when a doctor told her she was hurtling towards an early grave. The Get Ur Freak On hitmaker was stunned when a medic urged her to lose weight or risk tipping her high blood pressure problems over the edge - because fans and record company bosses never had a problem with her size. She reveals, "The reason I lost weight is because I have high blood pressure. I take two blood pressure pills a day. "My doctor told me, 'If you wanna be around , you're gonna have to lose weight.' So that was my focus." There she is back home in Nigeria onstage at the ThisDay Music festival in 2006.