Kelly Brook sadly recounted being advised by a photographer to ‘breathe in’ during a red carpet appearance.
The 43-year-old model and broadcaster has been upfront about her body confidence and her preference for feeling healthy than succumbing to the poisonous diet culture.
Appearing on Friday’s Loose Women, Kelly spoke about ‘having confidence in your own skin and being the best and healthiest version of yourself’ but not feeling pressure to ‘look a certain way’.
Talking about her modelling career in her 20s, she said: ‘The thing is, when you’re 20, for me when I was 20 it wasn’t difficult to stay thin, because your metabolism works a lot better, you’re younger.’
She continued: ‘It’s a completely different time in your life isn’t it? So I don’t think I was completely aware of how my body was going to change when I got older.
‘People would say, “a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips, you shouldn’t be eating like that,” and I could, I could eat whatever I wanted, and I was busy so I was running around.
‘But I wasn’t happy, I was busy and I was married to my work, and I wasn’t healthy.’
Kelly, who married husband Jeremy Parisi a year ago, went on to explain that the business was a “distraction” for her at the time.
She went on: ‘You’re having takeaways, you’re partying too much.’
‘It definitely caught up with me in my 30s, and all of a sudden that lifestyle caught up with me and my body, and I just didn’t recognise myself anymore.’
‘I didn’t feel good,’ she added.
Kelly then recalled a horrific incident in which a paparazzi commented on her weight.
She said: ‘I remember going on to a red carpet, and I’d always gone to events, and I remember the paparazzi asking me to breathe in.’
As the audience gasped, panellist Katie Piper agreed: ‘Yeah, that happens.’
‘And I tried to,’ Kelly continued. ‘But I couldn’t,’ she burst out laughing.
‘I think I walked away from that, and I just thought well I’ve just got to embrace it and this is who I am now.
‘I’m not now going to go on a crazy diet to try and be that 20-year-old girl, because I’m not that, I’m in my late 30s, early 40s, I need to embrace my body.
‘People need to get used to seeing me like this, because I think a lot of it comes from people around you looking at you and commenting on it.’
Loose Women airs weekdays from 12.30pm on ITV1.
Source My Celebrity Life.
