REVEALED! LEANN’s 38 POUND WEIGHT GAIN

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LEANN RIMES was a no-show at the star-splashed CMA awards, and The ENQUIRER can reveal why – she’s embarrassed about her 38-pound weight gain.

The 31-year-old “How Do I Live” singer is such an emotion­al wreck over her floundering marriage to skirt-chasing Eddie Cibrian that she’s been pigging out on fattening comfort food.

“Poor LeAnn is so distraught over fears that Eddie is going to cheat on her that she’s drowning her emotions with junk food,” revealed an insider. “She’s gob­bling up everything in sight.

“Now, she’s become so self-conscious about her weight that it kept her from attending the CMAs. She feels physically unattractive and didn’t want to try to squeeze into a formal gown.”

The 5-foot-5 country star is super-sensitive about her weight, and while it is clear she’s plumped up, she’s still only tipping the scales at 128 pounds, say insiders.

Her full-figured look is in stark contrast to her waif-thin appearance, which came under fire in the months following her April 2011 wedding to 40-year-old Eddie, and she recently claimed she is glad to be carrying the extra weight.

As The ENQUIRER reported late last year, the entertainer checked into a treatment facility for stress after learning Eddie was still in touch with a former lover.

Since then, she’s fretted about staying attractive to Eddie – the ex-husband of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Brandi Glanville – and even under­went a $100,000 beauty makeover, as The ENQUIRER revealed.

“LeAnn is worried sick because she knows the type of woman that catches Eddie’s eye,” said the source, “and right now she’s a far cry from that.”