Love Island star unrecognisable before weight loss transformation as she reveals body image struggle
LOVE Island bombshell Claudia Fogarty has opened up about her lack of confidence and struggles with her weight.
Claudia, 28, has lost almost three stone in recent years but admits she still struggles with how she looks sometimes when she looks in the mirror.
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In a new podcast, the stunning reality star admits: “I don't think I've ever been a confident person.
“Everyone thinks I'm a fun, happy, bubbly ball of energy.
“I would never show my true feelings and sometimes I felt very insecure.”
Claudia opens up to Love Island alumna Scott Thomas on his podcast “Learning as You Go.”
The stunning blonde, daughter of Superbike champion Carl Fogarty, told Scott she hit her heaviest weight since their split three years ago.
Claudia revealed: “I looked in the mirror and thought, ‘What are you doing?' I put on a lot of weight and I didn't feel so good about myself. I just let it go.
“People always say, ‘I never knew you were older than me'. But in pictures I'm always hiding, I'll be in the middle, and have a way of getting into pictures and editing them.
“I didn't want people to see how big I was. It wasn't until I took a photo with no clothes on and actually saw me in raw that I thought, ‘Oh my god.'”
Claudia says that during a session with her personal trainer, everything “falls into place” and she begins a complete lifestyle change.
“I said, ‘I'm fed up with feeling bloated and fat'. I'm not saying I'm fat because people will look at pictures and I'm not, I'm just very curvy, but it's more about my health,” she explained.
“I started crying, she started crying, even my mum started crying.
“I started my journey that day. It's been three years now.”
The Love Island cast with Keenan Brand star lost nearly three stone due to the changes she made.
She started walking more, going to the gym, and swapping out her chocolate for fruit and nuts.
Claudia also said cutting down on alcohol has helped, as she no longer finds herself hungover and laughing at junk food.
But she admits: “It's hard for me to stay at one weight. It's the same, but it's a lifestyle change.
“It's a tough thing, don't think I'm going to take it. It's a fight.”
Claudia's heart raced as she entered her South African villa in the infamous heart rate challenge.
The blonde beauty strutted into the garden in sexy red lingerie and huge Victoria's Secret-inspired wings.
Despite her fiery looks, Claudia admitted she was terrified and previously insisted she didn't make it to the ITV2 show that way.
“One of the things I didn't want to do was accept the challenge,” she told Scott.
“I told my mum before I went. I was like, ‘Please, I hope they don't do this to me'.
“They surprised me with Ann Summers underwear and wings. I was like, ‘Are you really laughing?'
“Ask me a few years ago and I wouldn't do something like that in a million years.”
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