Mel C keeps things sporty in a black bomber jacket and joggers during shopping trip

She rose to fame as Sporty Spice, one fifth of the hugely successful 90s girl group The Spice Girls.

And Mel C certainly lived up to her alter ego on Monday as she stepped out in a sporty ensemble during a low-key shopping trip in London.

The singer, 47,  donned a casual black bomber jacket and navy joggers, while she continued to fly the flag for ‘Girl Power’ with a shopping bag emblazoned with the words ‘Girls Are Awesome’. 

Mel, real name Melanie Chisholm, finished off her laidback look with a purple sweater and trendy white trainers.

The I Turn To You hitmaker swept her brunette locks into a high ponytail, while she concealed much of her make-up free visage with a black face mask.

Mel appeared in great spirits as she made her way down the street during her solo outing.

Last month, Mel claimed she doesn’t think she’d ‘survive’ if she became a star during the current age of social media. 

The songwriter reflected on the hardships she faced during her rise to fame in the 90s on Sink The Pink’s Pop-Tarts’ live Instagram series on Thursday.

Discussing her appearance as a guest judge on The Voice Kids, she detailed her relief at not entering the spotlight today by saying: ‘I don’t think I’d hack it, I don’t think I’d survive today.’ 

Looking back at her own mental health battle while in the Spice Girls, Mel went on: ‘I wish I had sought some kind of professional help to avoid some of the hurdles that were in the way.

‘Even though we had each other, and us girls were experiencing the same things at the same time. But everybody deals with things differently.’

Mel added: ‘I’m one of the more mature coaches. I kind of feel maternal over everybody. I’ve always been like that even back in the day, back in the band, I looked after Baby Spice quite a lot.’

‘Becoming famous at a young age is a really hard thing to get your head around,’ she went on. ‘I don’t think there’s enough support for young artists. Being thrust into the public eye does your head in.’

In October last year, Mel spoke of how she ‘struggled’ with an eating disorder and depression after the pressures of her Spice Girls fame ‘pushed her to the point of illness’. 

The singer, who rose to prominence as Sporty Spice in the hugely successful nineties pop group, described how she found the lows of fame ‘devastatingly hard’. 

Mel, who was 20 when she responded to an advert to form a girl group in 1994, told how she had ‘everything’ she had ‘ever dreamed of’ but was ‘desperately unhappy’.

Speaking to The Observer, she said: ‘The lows of being famous were devastatingly hard.’ 

She continued: ‘It pushed me to the point of illness. I was struggling with an eating disorder and suffering from depression. 

‘I had everything I’d ever dreamed of, and was desperately unhappy. It’s often forgotten that people in the public eye are human.’