Demi Jones has shared before and after photos of her three stone weight loss, admitting she has ‘always been scared’ to post them.
The Love Island star, 22, underwent a lifestyle transformation over the course of two years before she found fame on the 2020 series of the ITV2 show.
Demi revealed that leaving a ‘toxic relationship’ motivated her to change her lifestyle, saying she would previously eat junk food out of ‘pure depression’.
Transformation: Demi Jones has shared before and after photos of her three stone weight loss, admitting she has ‘always been scared’ to post them
The beauty shared before and after photos of herself, one taken in July 2018 and a stunning bikini shot from November 2020.
Alongside the photos, she wrote: ‘I’ve never shown anyone the first picture. I’ve come so far and I don’t recognise her at all. A mentally unhealthy phase I was able to over come.’
Demi also uploaded a clip of herself discussing her weight loss, saying she was motivated to become healthy after leaving a bad relationship.
She said: ‘I will show you some proper before and after, I’ve always been too scared to share these. I do want to show much weight I’ve actually lost. Since coming out of the villa. I’ve put a few pounds on but that’s obvious because of the villa.
Chanfe: The Love Island star, 22, underwent a lifestyle transformation over the course of two years before she found fame on the 2020 series of the ITV2 show
‘I actually just come out of a long-term, unhealthy toxic relationship. I wasn’t seeing my friends, I wasn’t going out. I was eating so unhealthy and a really bad lifestyle.
‘I came out of the relationship, I started seeing my friends again, I started becoming happy again. Believe it or not, the weight just dropped off me.’
Demi added that she now believes she would eat out of ‘sadness’ at the time and gained four dress sizes during the relationship.
She said: ‘I think I was eating out of pure depression in the evenings. Just out of sadness and boredom because I was in a toxic, controlling relationship. As soon as I got out of the relationship, I naturally started dropping the pounds.
Honest: Demi also uploaded a clip of herself discussing her weight loss, saying she was motivated to become healthy after leaving a bad relationship
‘Starting the relationship I was a size eight, within two years I was a size 12. I noticed none of my clothes were fitting me anymore and I said to my mum, something needs to change.
‘I went to Slimming World for a couple of weeks. Because I was always out with friends, I couldn’t maintain going every week but I kept all the books and it somehow drilled it into me.
‘I naturally abide by the rules, cutting out things I was eating a lot of. Bread, chocolate, takeaways. I was mainly eating Wheetabix for breakfast, for lunch I’d have rice and chicken or tuna and then whatever my mum cooks for me in the evening and I wasn’t really snacking. I stuck to that sin system.
‘By doing that alone I shed two stone up until December last year, then I was scouted for Love Island.’
After Demi was scouted by Love Island producers, she immediately hit the gym hard and lost another stone in only six weeks.
She said: ‘I think I was eating out of pure depression in the evenings. Just out of sadness and boredom because I was in a toxic, controlling relationship’
She said: ‘I was scouted very last minute, I only had six weeks notice. I went to the gym every single day. I was probably maintaining a sort of unhealthy gym routine that wasn’t for me.
‘Before Love Island, I lost another stone. During the villa as well, I wasn’t snacking. I just ate the set meals we were given today.
‘It’s a very long journey, a long process. I can’t do these quick diets and lose weight within a month. It needs to drill into your lifestyle to maintained or you’ll just put the weight back on.’
Demi recently shared another look at her weight loss transformation after a fan asked her to post a photo of herself exactly one year before entering the villa.
The star responded with a snap of her from January 2019, where she was wearing a snake-print mini skirt and wrote: ‘The glow up has been real!! I’ve lost 3 stone since Jan 2019-now’.
Wow: Demi recently shared another look at her weight loss transformation after a fan asked her to post a photo of herself exactly one year before entering the villa