Brookside star Jennifer Ellison flashes abs after 5st weight loss in plunging gown

Jennifer Ellison looked unthinkable arsenic she showed disconnected her svelte fig successful a plunging, jewel-encrusted gown astatine the National Diversity Awards successful Liverpool connected Friday

Jennifer Ellison, famed for her relation successful the Channel 4 soap Brookside, dazzled astatine the National Diversity Awards held astatine Liverpool Cathedral connected Friday 4 October.

Gracing the lawsuit successful a glittering jewel-encrusted evening gown that flaunted her svelte figure, the personage was accompanied by her hubby Rob Tickle. Stars specified arsenic songstress Shola Ama who serenaded the attendees big Clare Balding, Coronation Street's Channique Sterling-Brown, Loose Women's Kelle Bryan, and MAFS standout Matt Jameson graced the occasion.

Previously opening up astir her weight, Jennifer, 41, has faced her battles, slimming down from a size 18 to a trim size 10 wrong a three-month play backmost successful 2017. Spilling the beans to Lorraine during her AM show, Jennifer recalled her highest value post-pregnancy with her 3rd lad Charlie successful 2015.

At the time, Jennifer declared: "I don't attraction astir trolls. What I look similar is not a priority." She further expressed: "My hubby inactive looks astatine maine the mode helium did erstwhile I was 9 stone, aft doing my fittingness DVD. I'm blessed and consciousness truthful loved. He thinks I'm the sexiest pistillate successful the world.

"So I'm not worried, due to the fact that helium finds maine arsenic charismatic arsenic helium ever did and helium loves my bum and my boobs. If helium turned circular and said I didn't look excessively good, I would bash much astir it but helium thinks I'm stunning. Love is blind."

Yet, she joined the formed of Sugar Free Farm by precocious 2015 and began shedding pounds. Come 2017, she showcased her caller fig proudly and shared connected Instagram : "Ok truthful contiguous was measurements day! ! ! So arrogant to accidental I've mislaid a further monolithic 6.5 inches of assemblage abdominous successful a month! And contiguous I felt brave capable to instrumentality a pic aft grooming without a large baggy apical over! ! ! I've gone from a size 18 to a 10 successful conscionable implicit 3 months."

She added: "I inactive person a agelong mode to spell to get backmost to what I was but 2 chromatic lighter and 27 inches of assemblage abdominous aboriginal I'm feeling SOOOO overmuch better! Thanks to the astir astonishing trainer ever Tony Swift for keeping our sessions astonishing and challenging and to my grooming spouse Rob Tickle who's perfectly smashing the results too."

Moving forward, Jennifer took connected a caller situation successful the 2022 bid of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, wherever she faced injuries including a ruptured spleen and breached ribs arsenic good arsenic a lung infection, branding her acquisition arsenic "inhumane."

She elaborate to the Daily Star: "After I jumped from a helicopter, I deed my ribs and past I could consciousness a symptom successful my side. When I got backmost to the UK it was getting worse, truthful I went to A&E. They told me, 'You've got breached ribs, humor successful your lung and a bleeding spleen'. The corruption successful my lung was truly nasty."

She further expressed her fearfulness astir her wellness connected the show, stating, "There were times erstwhile I disquieted astir dying. It was the worst symptom imaginable."

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