Bake Off and Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has found a “new lease of life” after making some major life changes.
The TV star, 59, whose episode of Celebrity Bake Off repeats tonight (Monday, May 20), made the life change following a health scare…
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Bake Off star Coleen Nolan suffers health scare
A few months back, Coleen was forced to give up smoking after suffering a terrifying health scare.
Speaking to The Mirror in March, Coleen detailed the moment she realised she needed to end her 40 year habit.
“I literally couldn’t walk a few feet without stopping to catch my breath. It was the scariest thing, feeling constantly winded,” she said.
Later on, Coleen met with her boyfriend. However, she began to panic when she realised she was “gasping” while out on a walk with him.
“I had a full-scale panic attack and the more stressed I got and the more I cried, the less able I was to breathe,” she explained at the time.
“I genuinely thought ‘I’m going to die in my hotel room, away from home.’ It was really frightening.”
Bake Off star Coleen Nolan on diabetes
In another interview with The Mirror, Coleen revealed that she’d decided to undergo something of a change with her diet after learning she was close to being diagnosed with diabetes.
” was one-and-a-half marks off being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It was a shock but, looking back, I hadn’t been feeling myself for some time. I’d been experiencing terrible, abnormal fatigue, which would strike out of the blue, like in the middle of Tesco, and I’d have to stop what I was doing and go and sleep somewhere,” she said.
“And I kept getting skin infections that would take forever to heal. When I googled the symptoms, I think I had every one of them apart from weight loss.”
In response to the concerning news, she decided to change her food habits – and is now on a healthy plant-based diet.
Coleen ‘putting herself first’
Now, a source has claimed that Coleen has a “new lease of life” after making major health changes.
Speaking to OK! magazine, a source claimed: “Coleen has had a new lease of life since finally quitting smoking, meeting Michael, going vegan and recently losing weight.
“She feels like she’s putting herself first for once and really looking after herself and that is showing to everyone,” they then added.
ED! has contacted Coleen’s reps for comment.
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Celebrity Bake Off airs tonight (Monday, May 20) at 8pm on 4seven.
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