Courtney Love wants gastric band fitted

Courtney Love wanted to have a gastric band fitted, but was refused by doctors.

The former Hole singer – who recently lost a dramatic amount of weight, prompting surgery rumours - admits she was keen to undergo the procedure after becoming depressed about her ballooning weight.

She said: "Baby, if I could get a gastric band I would! I've heard it's a lot of vomiting and a pain in the a*s, but it's still easier than a diet. I did go to see a Hollywood doctor about it. I wasn't desperate, I just knew I had to do something. He said no.

"I might have been fat, but I wasn't that fat." Desperate Courtney then turned to an alternative weight-loss procedure to shed her excess pounds. She added: "I tried liposuction on my stomach after that. It was horrible and it didn't work."

Courtney, 44, also admits taking drugs while pregnant with her daughter Frances Bean, now 16. However, the singer insists she and late husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain – who killed himself in 1994 – were always good parents to their daughter.

She added to Elle magazine: "My daughter knows I did drugs in my first trimester of pregnancy. She weighed 7lb 6oz when she was born and she was healthy.

"We were excellent parents and I say that despite pretty much always having an edge on. Frances bonded very well with her father, at least in the first year and a half of her life."