Liza Minnelli is anxiously awaiting hip and back surgery that she hopes will enable her to walk again, lose weight and re-energize her stalled career.
In an interview with The New York Post from her hospital bed at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, Minnelli said she is eager to go under the knife.
"I have to have my hip operated on and my back operated on," she said. "The hip I have to have replaced. I'm ready to get on with it, and I'm feeling fabulous!
"It'll be so much easier for me to lose weight after this. It's hard when you have a bad hip and a bad back. And I'll be able to walk again. I've been in and out of a wheelchair. But I feel healthy. I feel like a bloody ox."
An upbeat Minnelli lavished praise on the recent TV miniseries about her mother, Judy Garland, "Me & My Shadows," based on the book by Minnelli's half-sister, Lorna Luft.
"I think Judy Davis who played Garland is a great actress," she said. "She can do it all. I think it was beautifully done. Judy really gave it her all."