She has famously battled with her weight - but according to this tribute to the queen of daytime television, it appears to be a battle lost.

Controversial American sculptor Daniel Edwards latest work 'The Oprah Sarcophagus', is a very full-figured sculpture of Oprah Winfrey - and that's where the likeness begins and ends.

The work casts Miss Winfrey in bronze, as a nude, full-breasted woman with generous child-bearing hips.

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Double take: The statue depicts Winfrey as a full-breasted, curvaceous woman with generous child-bearing hips

However, it bears little likeness to the billionaire media mogul, save for the head of curly hair that fans out around her.

Instead, the artwork shares an uncanny likeness to the coffinette which held the body of Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun.

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The real thing: Billionaire television mogul Oprah Winfrey has been immortalised in a less than flattering bronze 'sarcophagus' statue by artist Daniel Edwards

Edwards, 42, says his piece pays homage to the closest thing America has to a living deity.

The artist's pieces typically address celebrity and popular culture in ways that have often stirred controversy.

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Oprah's statue looks uncannily like the coffinette of Egyptian boy king, Tutankhamun

Last year a row broke out over a statue which depicted a 'dead' Prince Harry clutching a cameo locket of his late mother, Princess Diana.

His other works include a life-sized statue of Britney Spears giving birth while nude on her hands and knees on a bearskin rug, and a dead Paris Hilton.

Giving birth: Artist Daniel Edwards with a sculpture of Britney Spears giving birth

Dead heiress: This life-size sculpture of Paris Hilton which depicted the heiress dead