‘She made her husband stay inside when I sunbathed topless’: Woman, 59, ‘had to move house’ because her neighbour was jealous of her bikini body
Maria-Louise Warner didn't 'risk' having a daughter in case she was jealous of her too
A 59-YEAR-OLD woman claims she was forced to MOVE HOUSE because her neighbour was so jealous of her stunning bikini body.
Most of us take it for granted that we can do whatever we want in the privacy of our own home – but according to Maria-Louise Warner, things aren’t always so easy.
Despite being nearly 60, Maria-Louise claims to regularly be mistaken for someone 20 years younger thanks to her super slim 36-26-36 body.
She loved nothing better than sunbathing topless in the privacy of her own home, but claims her neighbour couldn’t handle seeing her curves and made things so uncomfortable she was forced to move.
“She’d demand her husband stay inside,” Maria-Louise said of her neighbour.
“Then she would shout over the fence at me – telling me to put some clothes on.
“I don’t understand why she was outraged that I prefer to get an all-over tan in my own garden.
“I’ve even called me an 'outrageous exhibitionist'.
“On a good day I know I look 20 years younger and can easily pass for 39.
“My breasts haven't dropped, I don't have a muffin top and there isn't an ounce of spare flesh on me. It drives most women mad.”
She’s also suffered having knickers pinched from her washing line and being spied on in the shower.
That hasn’t stopped her love of topless sunbathing though – Maria-Louise has even checked with police who’ve assured her she’s fine to keep stripping off.
Things haven’t always been this way for Maria-Louise.
She used to have loads of friends… when she was fat.
“When I was married, 14 stone and a size 18 during my late-30s and 40s I had lots of female friends,” she insisted
“But when I shed the weight, I suddenly found my girlfriends no longer wanted to know me.”
In fact things started a long time before that.
Maria-Louise was a “local beauty” during her teenage years in Devon, whose looks were so breath-taking she was even featured in a newspaper.
Unfortunately, not everyone was impressed.
“While my deceased father was proud as punch, my late mother was so bitter about it that she didn't speak to me for a month,” she recalled.
Although she’s been married twice she has no kids, with Maria-Louise puts down to her own tricky relationship with her mum.
“My mum hated me so much and was so threatened by me, that I feared I'd compete with my female offspring too,” she said.
“I couldn't ever risk having a daughter. What if she was fat or ugly and was jealous of me too?”
During her 20s and 30s Maria-Louise worked in sales, where being “easy on the eye” helped her earn a fortune which she splashed on a boat and exotic holidays.
“I was on the road during the week visiting bored but rich and sophisticated married businessmen who were usually used to dealing with podgy men in suits,” she said.
“No wonder they were falling over themselves to do business with me. When their wives met me at social functions, they couldn't stand me.”
Things got worse when Maria-Louise stopped being sent on appointments with women, because they tended to “hate her on sight”.
Now almost 60, she has no cellulite and hasn’t had Botox or surgery.
She’s relied on a strict diet and daily exercise to maintain her trim size 10 figure.
“I exercise for two hours each day,” she said.
“First I run 15 miles, then I walk my dogs for an hour.
“I have to buy new trainers every three months - I'm so fit and focused on running.
“When I'm running I regularly get women drivers shouting out of their cars at me. 'I hope you fall into a ditch you skinny b****,' is one that I won't forget.
“'It's frightening but I do try and shrug their remarks off.
“Sadly I know, and they know, that their insults are as much directed at their own less-than-perfect bodies.”
Maria-Louise lives in France these days and claims anyone can look like her – they just need to put the effort in.
“Women my age who say they can't find the time to create their own body beautiful need to stop and think about the hours they spend slumped in front of the TV,” she said.
“Don't get me started on women who find excuses to let them gorge on chocolates and other unhealthy snacks.
“I eat a yoghurt for breakfast and a salad for lunch, sometimes if I'm busy I'll skip my main meal – but that's rare.”
After putting on weight in her 30s and 40s, Maria-Louise started to slim down when her husband walked out on her in 2008.
She was 50 and claims her hubby had preferred her fat to keep other men away.
Determined to change she shed the pounds, but lost friends in the process… she was even uninvited for a Christmas dinner she was supposed to be having with four other couples.
“It probably didn't help that two out of the four husbands had already made passes,” she said.
“One had given me his private mobile number and another had suggesting meeting up for a 'physical relationship’.
“The number of men my age whose wives no longer want to make love, is shocking. The trouble is their wives are fat and frumpy – a recipe for disaster between the sheets.
“While I've never taken up such offers, you can't blame their husbands for preferring a ride in a sleek sports car than trying to warm up a clapped out old banger.”