Kathy Griffin on her body and self-esteem issues

Hey, Kathy Griffin has a book, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin,, coming out this month so prepare yourself for a publicity blitz!

Unlike most people promoting something, Kathy is fresh and funny each time out so her on the publicity trail is a good thing.

This week, she’s talking about the days before she had rhe buff bikini bod she showed off at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards in Hollywood.

“What I can’t figure out is why I wasted time worrying about my looks. I am a comedian. I’m not on the runway in Milan,” Kathy writes.”Believe it or not, people don’t come to see me really thinking I’m going to look like Jennifer Aniston.”

Kathy, who is vying for her third straight Emmy win thius month for her Bravo series My Life On the D-List, is currently at 115 pounds – her thinnest weight: “Staying in shape is a struggle,” she writes. “I struggle with it every day. I just came from a very healthy lunch but the whole time I was having the healthy lunch I wished I was having cupcakes. It’s not a simple thing. I have to watch what I eat and I have to work out quite a bit.”

Kathy had botched liposuction a decade ago and the complications from it nearly killed her. She got to her current size through diet and exercise and has come a long ways from her early insecure days as Brooke Shields’ co-star on the sitcom Suddenly Susan.

“I lost 15 lbs. friggin’ fast in season 1,” she writes. “But being on television … I was never thin enough. [Being on TV] told me that clothes didn’t come in anything larger than a four. That got to me.”