Actress Lisa George has revealed she feels “insecure” over the way she looks.
And, while the Coronation Street star revealed that she has dropped a dress size while training for Dancing On Ice, frustratingly, Lisa hasn’t lost a pound in weight.
She told the Sunday People magazine: “It’s helped me tone up and drop a dress size, but I haven’t lost a pound, which is frustrating.”
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Best known for playing Beth Tinker in the ITV soap, Lisa has revealed that she feels self-conscious about the way she looks.
She said: “I’ve kept a low profile in the past because of my poor body image, I was never confident with my body weight and didn’t like how I looked. I didn’t want to be in magazines because the other girls at Corrie are really slim and pretty, and there’s a lot of pressure.”
However, while she has become more toned thanks to her Dancing On Ice training, Lisa has maintained that she won’t be wearing “skimpy” outfits on the show.
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She admitted that she feels self-conscious about her tummy and her arms and prefers to cover them up.
Lisa – who suffers from Type 2 diabetes – revealed she is scared that people will “laugh” at her.
She said: “I hold myself back a lot. I’m a bag of nerves. I’m insecure. I think people will laugh at me. But there are lots of women my age, perimenopausal women like me, who are not body confident. I’m doing it for them.”
I’ve kept a low profile in the past because of my poor body image, I was never confident with my body weight and didn’t like how I looked.
Lisa is partnered with professional skater Tom Naylor for the current series of Dancing On Ice.
The actress was a competitive ice skater as a child, but she stopped skating when she was nine after suffering a nasty accident.
Lisa recently revealed that she was left “fuming” at her Corrie co-star Andy Whyment after he failed to tell her he was taking part in the last series of I’m A Celebrity.
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