Gemma Collins has urged her fans to lose weight naturally, as her ex boyfriend James Argent, 33, prepares to have ‘life-saving’ gastric surgery.
The former TOWIE star, 40, insisted that diet and exercise is the way to tackle weight loss as she confessed that she regrets promoting weight loss jabs in the past.
Speaking on the GC podcast she revealed that she now calls herself a ‘fitness queen’ after her three stone weight loss, and is determined to continue her health kick.
‘My new name is fitness queen’: Gemma Collins has urged her fans to lose weight naturally, as her ex boyfriend James Argent, 33, prepares to have ‘life-saving’ gastric surgery
She explained: ‘I have said that I’m not promoting any diet injections or anything like that.
‘I kind of regret doing it but I feel like sometimes you’re in such a desperate place and you want to lose weight but actually I’ve come away from all the diet promotion because I wish we could get rid of that word diet.
‘It is so important that we keep getting that message home to people, that beauty is more than just these pumped-up faces, it’s not all about that.’
Worrying: Gemma’s comments come after Arg revealed he will have life-saving gastric surgery in the near future as he described doctors’ stark warning as ‘very worrying’
She continued: ‘It’s me Gemma, my new name is fitness queen. Since turning 40 I’ve become so much more aware of my health and I’m kind of regretting maybe not taking my health as seriously as I should have done.’
Gemma revealed that her new diet on her ‘massive health drive’ includes scrambled eggs, avocados and bacon, plus some small treats like jelly and nuts.
She explained that she has also been taking part in more exercise.
Gemma’s comments come after Arg revealed he will have life-saving gastric surgery in the near future as he described doctors’ stark warning as ‘very worrying’.
The reality TV personality has now received his first dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine after he was placed in the ‘high-risk category’ because of his weight.
He said on a recent GMB appearance: ‘They’ve [doctors] basically been saying, the size I am at the moment, it could be fatal. If I was to catch Covid, I could be a goner.’
Motivated: The reality star explained she’s swapped her addiction to shopping for an obsession with health and exercise
Meanwhile, Gemma revealed on Thursday that her new fitness regime has left her ‘so tired’ in the evenings that she goes to bed at 9pm.
She told her fans on Instagram: ‘Bed at 9pm for me these days! I get so tired after training- bed, rest, SLEEP RECHARGE.’
Gemma has been taking to social media daily to share her workouts with her followers and says her body ‘is literally changing by the day’.
Last Friday, she shared a glimpse of her tiny lunch which consisted of salmon and five slices of cucumber.
The fitness fanatic told her followers: ‘So guys this is my lunch today. I can have some Philadelphia with this and spinach which I can’t wait for.’
‘And I’m already prepping my lunch for tomorrow, I get on the scales, I’ve got to weight it all out on the scales and I get it in a container.’
Gemma proceeded to show a mid-morning snack of almonds and a Babybel, leaving some fans concerned she wasn’t eating enough.
Three stone down: Gemma has been taking to social media daily to share her workouts with her followers and on Thursday, she said her body ‘is literally changing by the day’
Gemma shocked fans again on Friday when she posed for a new PETA campaign with a skinned fox in an attempt to end fur trade in the UK.
In the image, Gemma is seen holding the fox carcass aloft under the tagline ‘here’s the rest of your fur coat’ – and as part of the campaign, the TOWIE star is calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to bring an end to the ‘barbaric’ practice.
She said in a new video: ‘You may have heard I’m celebrating my 40th birthday. Yes, that’s four decades of the GC. And you know who else just turned 40? PETA US. That’s four decades of campaigning for animals.
‘From disrupting fashion catwalk shows to holding endless demonstrations, PETA has helped people see all over the world just how disgusting it is to wear animals.
‘It’s shown us that animals in the fur industry are kept in cramped cages before they’re killed in the most horrific ways – all for a coat or some trim on a jacket.’
‘Here’s the rest of your fur coat’: Gemma shocked fans again on Friday when she posed for a new PETA campaign with a skinned fox in an attempt to end fur trade in the UK