Gwyenth Paltrow struggled to get rid of her baby fat following the birth of her son Moses, and hated her post-pregnancy figure as a result.

The actress admits she had a tough time getting back to her slender figure after giving birth to her second child with Coldplay rocker Chris Martin.

She tells V magazine: "I didn't mind the big boobs. But I hated the stomach roll, the back fat and the post-pregnant butt. And it was so hard to get rid of. Especially the final 20 pounds (nine kilograms)."

She insists she felt far from the Hollywood beauty she is often pictured as: "I had milk dripping out of my boobs - it (being an actress) seemed like a fairy tale."

And Paltrow confesses her pregnancy cravings for junk food prompted her to ditch her strict macrobiotic diet.

She adds: "I wanted French fries, grilled cheese and yoghurt, so it kind of went out the window. I couldn't look at brown rice - it made me throw up."