GEMMA Collins has spoken about her devastation at being secretly filmed working out at the gym by trolls who posted the footage on Facebook saying: “Look at this fat pig.”
The 39-year-old reality star told fans about the nightmare of seeing the cruel comments, calling the experience “really traumatic”.
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Speaking on the latest edition of her BBC show The Gemma Collins Podcast, she explained why workouts at the gym weren’t for her any more.
She said: “I often go for walks but the newest thing I’ve done – and fallen in absolute love with it – is bike riding.
“I bought myself a bike in isolation and a helmet and I love it. It’s built my confidence up because not everyone is confident to excercise.
“I’ve been in gyms before and people have recorded me on their mobile phones and uploaded it on Facebook and said: ‘Look at this fat pig’ which has been really traumatic for me to see.”
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Speaking about how she was told to attend gruelling exercise classes when she first found fame, Gemma added: “When I first became known in public I was sent off to bootcamps.
“I was thrown into all this madness of weight loss and weight gain and I was made to feel ashamed of my body.
“It’s something we couldn’t speak about back then but I’m telling the truth. It’s something that now that probably wouldn’t be allowed to happen.
“I can remember I lost three and a half stone weight loss. It was painful, it was excruciating, it was hell. I had to exercise eight hours a day. It was very tiring, very exhausting. I came away seeing exercise as punishment.
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“Something in my brain when it came to exercising, my stomach would churn, my heart would go and beat funny. I’d be like: I just don’t want to do this.
“I’d get a mental block. I do like exercising. It makes you feel good and gets the endorphins going. So I decided to do low impact exercise and exercise I enjoy.”
Gemma has lost weight in recent months thanks to a combination of healthy eating and a new exercise regime.
She looked slimmer than ever yesterday as she flashed a red bra in an Instagram picture.
The star, returned to TV this week with her show Diva On Lockdown, which showed her sobbing in her car after the sale of her dream home fell through.