'i rebelled'
Scarlett Moffatt admits she ‘purposefully put on weight’ after fitness DVD ‘to stop people buying it’
SCARLETT Moffatt has admitted she "purposefully put on weight" after her fitness DVD was released.
The Gogglebox star, 30, lost three stone and slimmed down from a size 18 to a size 8 for the DVD that was released in 2018.
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But in a new interview on , Scarlett revealed she wanted to put on weight after the DVD was released because the 700 calorie a day diet was "detrimental" to her mental health.
And she slammed the extreme diet DVD as the "worst thing I've ever done" and wanted to "stop people buying it".
"I slowly realised it was quite detrimental to my mental health," she said.
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"I've also deleted all my before and after pictures...Not only were they bad for my peace of mind it wasn't really good for other people because now I look like my before picture again.
"I sort of rebelled against the DVD because I just didn't like how it happened and I just wasn't for it anymore.
"I purposefully started putting weight on. I was sort of like, 'if I get big again it can't get brought up'. I can't have this stigma attached to me about this DVD and people will stop buying it."
The former Saturday Night Takeaway star revealed that controlling her diet was crucial to her extreme weight loss.
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"I think people thought I had been walking and rambling up mountains for six months but it wasn't, I genuinely did just do those exercise [in the DVD] but obviously I had to cut out a lot of food from what I was normally eating," she said.
"I think now that is what I want to try to say to people - 'please don't think that you can just own this DVD and then instantly you can lose that amount of weight, it is a lot of pressure and it is a lot of work'."
She said she is now embracing her natural curves instead of trying to reduce them.
"I wore a swimsuit in a waterpark, which I know doesn't sound like a massive step," she said.
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"But for me that was massive, especially in front of my boyfriend, because normally I would wear cover ups and kaftans and short and T-shirt."
Earlier this week, Scarlett revealed she still messages Caroline Flack two months after the TV star's tragic death.
She told Kate Thornton's she does it to remember the late Love Island host who took her own life in February.
She said: "I still message Caroline on her Instagram. I still message her love hearts.
"She is still in my thoughts. And also anger for what happened. Words do hurt.
"I am not 100 per cent like it doesn’t bother me.
"I was getting loads of stick for my nose - this is the nose I was born with."
Scarlett revealed she used to get so upset by trolls that she phoned the Samaritans for help.
The Geordie I’m A Celebrity winner called regularly because of insults about her nose.
“I’d give a fake name and I’d chat for 15 minutes. It really, really did help," she said.
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“I was getting loads of stick. I was like, ‘It’s the nose I was born with’.”
Scarlett said she now responds to trolls by giving them the number for the Samaritans.
Scarlett, who is self-isolating with her cop boyfriend Scott Dobinson, said: “I think, ‘God, how must they be feeling to have so much hatred towards someone they have never met?’.”
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