Homesick Leona Lewis piles on pounds

X Factor Leona Lewis, who is currently in Los Angeles working on her next album, is so homesick that she has piled on the pounds.

The 21-year-old British singer looked lacklustre and bloated during a recent stroll in Los Angeles, with sources close to her saying that she takes comfort in food to get over
her homesickness, reported Daily Mail online.

The Bleeding Love hitmaker who moved to Los Angeles to further her career has left behind her family and boyfriend in Hackney, London.

"Leona's basically very family orientated and she misses her parents and her boyfriend. She's been homesick ever since she went to LA," a friend of the singer told Now
magazine.

The former Pizza Hut waitress won the third series of  The X Factor in 2006 and was handed a 1 million pound recording contract with Simon Cowell's label. She then signed
a further 5 million pound deal to record five albums.