TV star Vanessa Feltz has exclusively revealed her biggest regret since losing five stone in weight.
The 63-year-old presenter, who has been gracing our screens for several decades, launched her new self-titled Channel 5 daytime chat show this afternoon (March 24), which featured former Corrie star Helen Flanagan as a guest.
Throughout the years, Vanessa has been open about her struggles with weight. However, speaking exclusively to Entertainment Daily, she’s now shared her “biggest regret” since shedding five stone…
Vanessa Feltz weight loss ‘regret’
Vanessa is no stranger to discussing her weight-loss journey. During an appearance on Loose Women, Vanessa confessed she started dieting at the tender age of nine.
And, after splitting from her husband, surgeon Michael Kurer, she revealed that he had called her “disgustingly fat” during their relationship.
I wish I waited to take bloody weight-loss jabs.
However, in 2010, following years of yo-yo dieting, Vanessa had a gastric band fitted. That said, when the gastric band slipped in 2018, she decided to get gastric bypass surgery the following year and has since been able to lose five stone and maintain her weight.
Despite being happy with the results, she still regrets having the surgery.
“My biggest regret is not having held off that bloody gastric bypass surgery which cost me a fortune,” she told ED! on behalf of Heart Bingo. “I wish I waited to take bloody weight-loss jabs, which I would’ve been delighted to take.”
She then declared: “It’s much cheaper!”
‘I didn’t fancy you before, but now I do’
The biggest change Vanessa has noticed since keeping the weight off is how people have reacted.
“People, usually men, are like: ‘Oh, I didn’t fancy you before, but now I do.’ Or: ‘I didn’t think you were a contender before, but now I do,'” she said.
“Some say: ‘Gosh, you’ve done so well,’ and give you a pat on the bum and a pat on the head, and all you do is just give them a really hard kick in the balls for being so bloody presumptuous and rude.”
She continued: “I don’t think people who give a damn really treat you differently if you’re thinner. Especially now when everyone’s thinner because of weight-loss jabs. Everyone has suddenly got thinner. Everyone that had a weight problem your whole life, suddenly hasn’t.”
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