Love Island’s Caroline Flack: It's time we started to show that all women don't look the same

The Love Island presenter speaks about body image, going sugar-free and her recent weight loss
Caroline Flack says she has a sugar-free diet to thank for her slim figure
Your Fitness
Liz Connor7 July 2016

Caroline Flack might be busy sending a host of attractive singles off into the sunshine for the holiday of a lifetime but the Love Island presenter has revealed that her busy schedule hasn’t stopped her from staying fit and healthy this summer.

Speaking to Your Fitness magazine, she said: ”I work out three times a week and used to feel really intimidated entering the free weights area but now I feel comfortable. I've been lifting heavy weights for 14 weeks and I haven't become any bigger.”

And the hard work is clearly paying off. She recently revealed she had shed a stone in three months despite still eating a plentiful and varied diet, owing her slimming waistline to a ‘hardcore’ sugar-free diet.

“I'm consuming more calories now than ever before,” she confessed. “They're just the right calories.

“I'm always starving in the morning so I eat a lot for breakfast it's usually scrambled or poached eggs, bacon, avocado, mushrooms or sometimes even steak.

“What made the biggest difference to how I looked and felt was cutting out all sugar.”

Caroline appears in the latest issue of Your Fitness magazine

Her recent weight loss has been highly publicised, with speculation that online trolls were the motivation for Flack, 36, to hit the gym.

“I’d hate to think I did this for anyone else,” Caroline hits back in the latest issue of Your Fitness magazine. “The truth is I did this for me ­to make myself feel the very best I could and this is the way I decided to do it. I don't like to weigh myself. But it was never really about losing weight.”

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Keen to be an advocate of ‘strong not skinny’, her recent body transformation has also made her rethink how the media portray women’s bodies.

She says: ”There seems to be one type of body out there at the moment. If anyone looked through a magazine from a different era they'd assume that that's what all humans looked like.

“It's not and it's time we started to show what actual bodies look like and that all women don't look the same. I want to set a good example and show what's real. “

Read the full interview in tomorrow's issue of Your Fitness.

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