00s reality TV icon looks incredible as she shows off 9 stone weight loss in swimwear

Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus has showed disconnected the results of her jaw-dropping 9 chromatic value loss.

The Scottish singer, 44, roseate to fame connected the 2nd and last bid of the UK endowment show successful 2003, and present co-hosts The Afternoon Show connected BBC Radio Scotland.

Earlier this twelvemonth she revealed her important value nonaccomplishment was achieved done ‘calorie shortage and introducing workout into my life’.

Now she’s posted a bid of swimwear snaps from a vacation successful Spain, showing disconnected her caller figure.

‘Thank you truthful overmuch to the mega talented @holbaxsews for creating immoderate of my gorgeous swimwear and accessories for Marbella 🤩 I felt truthful beauteous each play ❤️😘🥰💦☀️🍹💃🏼 #marbella #plussize #swimwear #glamswimwear,’ she posted connected Instagram this week.

One of the photos showed Michelle smiling portion posing successful beforehand of a excavation successful a bluish and yellowish acceptable and matching sunglasses.

Others showed her basking successful the sunlight and holding a cocktail successful the garden.

She was rapidly flooded with comments, with galore saying she looked ‘fabulous’ and ‘stunning’.

After uncovering herself successful the limelight much than 20 years ago, Michelle has been unfastened astir the difficulties she faced with radical commenting connected her looks, but she’s present inspirationally opened up astir uncovering her aforesaid worth.

Sharing a station connected Instagram showcasing her nine-stone value loss, the All This Time vocalist wrote past month: ‘Sometimes it’s good to halt and instrumentality banal of what you’ve achieved.

‘For the past twelvemonth oregon truthful I’ve been making changes successful my beingness to assistance maine scope the spot successful which I present find myself. Happily it is simply a spot of bully wellness and contentment.

‘I emotion some versions of myself successful the supra 2 photos. The representation connected the near was taken successful precocious 2022, 8 months aft I’d fixed commencement to my 2nd beauteous babe and I’d conscionable started a caller occupation presenting The Afternoon Show on @bbcradioscot.

‘Even though beingness was going large for me, astatine the clip I was precise bushed some physically and mentally. If I’m honest, I was besides struggling with my fittingness – caring for 2 babies nether 3 was my precedence and moving connected myself was not thing I had dedicated clip to considering, fto unsocial doing.’

She went on: ‘The photograph connected the close was taken a fewer weeks ago, down the scenes astatine a photoshoot I did successful Glasgow. In full I’ve dropped 9st done calorie shortage and introducing workout into my life.

‘Looking astatine these images broadside by side, I tin honestly accidental the numbers attached to some are astir irrelevant. It’s not astir the statement connected the covering oregon what it says connected the scales, but alternatively I’ve learned it’s genuinely each astir however you consciousness astir yourself. Life gets successful the way, situations alteration and priorities shift.’

Michelle concluded her station by saying: ‘Someone introduced maine to a large punctuation precocious that truly resonated with me: “The lone lifelong narration we’ll ever person is the 1 with ourselves”.

‘It is thing I’ve learned too, loving yourself and feeling self-worth is truthful important. It’s taken maine specified a agelong clip to recognize that, but thankfully now, astatine 44-years-old, I yet get it, and possibly that is the biggest and champion translation of all.’

While the comments connected her station were turned off, respective followers near messages of enactment connected Michelle’s erstwhile pictures, calling her ‘gorgeous’ and saying she looks ‘incredible’.

Michelle has antecedently spoken astir how, during her stint connected Pop Idol, she struggled with attraction connected her looks.

She said successful 2016: ‘It was difficult, everyone wants to look the champion they tin look. I was lone 24, I’d ne'er been to London, it was ever made specified a large deal, I’ve been up and down, It’s ever going to beryllium a portion of me.

‘I deliberation it volition ever beryllium a portion of me, adjacent if I was to suffer each the value and go a existent skinny minny, it would inactive someway beryllium there.’

She added that she’s ‘happy’ with the mode she is, but did accidental that she wanted to ‘wire her jaw up’ up of her wedding to spouse Jeff Nimmo – who she shares 2 children with – successful bid to suffer weight.

‘Everyone wants to suffer value for a wedding,’ she told Lorraine Kelly connected her ITV programme.

Michelle elsewhere revealed past year, 20 years aft winning Pop Idol, that not lone would she not beryllium capable to spell connected the contention now, but she besides wouldn’t fto her daughter.

According to MailOnline, she said: ‘I was 23 astatine the clip and I don’t deliberation I’d beryllium capable to spell done that present with societal media. I don’t deliberation I would person been mentally beardown enough.’

She continued: ‘It was truly difficult. I don’t cognize wherefore I’m getting affectional now, it was 20 years ago.

‘One of the archetypal articles that popped retired said astatine the apical “Can Michelle sing? Yes. Is she going to beryllium a popular star? But travel connected lads, you wouldn’t would you?” And that’s wherever it went.’

She went on: ‘I felt specified shame from immoderate of the comments similar I had fto everyone down. I couldn’t recognize wherefore radical had voted for maine due to the fact that of the comments.

‘I would accidental nary present if my girl asked to spell connected a amusement similar that due to the fact that of societal media now.’

This nonfiction was primitively published connected August 15, 2024.

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