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Natalie Cassidy: I regret making my fitness DVD... being slim just wasn't me
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Natalie Cassidy has admitted she regretted making her best-selling fitness DVD and the stress of the constant attention regarding her yo-yoing figure left her afraid to be seen eating in public.
The formers EastEnders star who embarked on her fitness drive after leaving the show said making the video was a mistake and that being slim 'just wasn't me.'
Natalie admitted she got drawn into female celebrity culture's obsession with being thin and took laxatives in a desperate bid to try and stay trim.
Natalie said she felt so much pressure to keep the weight off that she resorted to taking laxatives pills after every big meal.
She said: 'If I had a big meal in the evening or something I would take laxatives before going to bed. Which is very dangerous and wrong.
'I'm a size 14 now. I'm fine now and I'll live and learn from my mistakes. I'm happier now'.
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The formers EastEnders star who embarked on her fitness drive after leaving the show said making the video was a mistake and that being slim 'just wasn't me.'
Natalie admitted she got drawn into female celebrity culture's obsession with being thin and took laxatives in a desperate bid to try and stay trim.
Natalie said she felt so much pressure to keep the weight off that she resorted to taking laxatives pills after every big meal.
She said: 'If I had a big meal in the evening or something I would take laxatives before going to bed. Which is very dangerous and wrong.
'I'm a size 14 now. I'm fine now and I'll live and learn from my mistakes. I'm happier now'.
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Natalie wasn't meant to be a stick insect and it didn't really suit her pretty face anyway. So it is nice to see that Natalie has returned to her natural beauty. She is a brave lady to speak out for the many of us who have done the extreme excercising and dieting just to try and fit a celebrity glossy mag image profile.
I lost 6 stone once and ended up in hospital with damage to my oesophogus from vomitting and from losing lean fat from my body. Dieting can become a dangerous obsession.
A size 14 is hardly big for goodness sake. I would be happy to get down to a size 20.
What did bother me about this interview was she said she could be slim again tomorrow if she wanted - so she still hasn't come to terms with it all. A warning to people not to go down the road of yo-yo dieting and not to become obsessed about weight issues.
I have the same feeling about her. I don't need her to tell me now that her weight loss was a mistake, because it was obvious at the time - unless you consider all of the publicity it generated. And now all of the publicity she's getting from gaining weight and talking about how terrible it was being thin etc etc.
The unfortunate thing is that she is quickly learning that she gets much more attention for her weight loss/gain and boob job than she ever got for her acting. That might seem like a good idea in the short term, and I'm sure her agent is glad to get a cut of the DVD and interview income, but it's off-putting for people considering casting her for something.
All this despite the fact she was actually misleading the public into buying her DVD, by claiming that her weight loss was solely down to exercising and healthy eating. From now on I wouldn't blame people for taking whatever she says with a pinch of salt.
There are obviously still underlying body issues she is struggling with and she'd have done herself a favour by dealing with this privately, rather than greedily jumping on the celebrity fitness bandwagon all for the sake of a quick buck.
I hope she can genuinely get to grips with her demons otherwise this is going to be the pattern of her life and it will all be lived out in the papers/magazines. What a depressing thought:(
Nope that was Eva Cassidy!
Ok. Right.
I can't stand celeb fitness DVDs in general though. You'd have to be very naieve to think that any of them get so slim on healthy eating and exercise alone. I roll my eyes at the whole "celeb turned fitness guru" culture and those who fall for it.
She made her money, got her pics in the paper, anyone remember the very posed pics in the papers with her personal trainer and natalie on the beach on holiday - flexing and sucking in for all she was worth whilst still trying to appear as if she wasn't posing.
Have no sympathy for her, she was over-rated in EE, she lied, she made money, lots of money, raised her profile, then got caught out - now she is just trying some damage limitation.
I just thought she looked odd when she had that toned figure.
I think she was really badly advised in making that DVD, too - if you know you have an issue with food/your weight then making your weight loss so public - making money from it especially - is putting an awful lot of pressure on yourself.
The media were always going to highlight every pound gained from then on.
Oh totally agree, a coven of bile-spewing evil witches. But Natalie needs to stop talking about her weight in the media because she's just providing fuel for the coven's fire. She's calling attention to something that she must know the bitter old hags over at the DM will practically climax over.
The DM 'journalists' (a misnomer if ever there was one) don't like women, full stop. Even when they can't find anything bad to say about someone, they manage to make themselves sound begrudging and cheated.
The tabloids are like a dog with a bone once they get hold of a story, but she chose to promote her weight loss in order to tap into the lucrative celebrity fitness market.
The fact she was resorting to laxatives and struggling to maintain her regime was always going to come to light eventually - the biggest giveaway being the fact she's put all the weight back on again.