EastEnders' Letitia Dean's weight loss plan after dropping four dress sizes

Actress Letitia Dean, 55, is champion known for playing glamorous Sharon Watts connected EastEnders, and has stunned fans with her on-screen translation aft dropping 4 formal sizes

EastEnders' Letitia Dean has been a acquainted look connected Albert Square for implicit 30 years but she's been wowing fans with her caller look.

The actress, 55, who has starred connected and disconnected connected the soap since the precise archetypal occurrence aired successful 1985, has undergone an impressment value nonaccomplishment translation aft losing 4 formal sizes successful 4 months.

Commenting connected her glamorous caller look, a assured Sharon, who has a noticeably slimmer frame, sleek poker consecutive blow-dry and an each implicit glow, joked of her noticeable alteration successful appearance, 'I've been pampered, polished and plucked'.

Fans of the amusement person besides been commented connected her stunning glow up which they accidental has "knocked years off" her.

Letitia has spoken openly astir her conflict with assemblage representation and yo-yoing value implicit the years and backmost successful 2020 revealed however she had been targeted by cruel trolls.

"I had rather a batch of horrible things said astir me. 'She's excessively fat, the different actors kick they can't acceptable connected the aforesaid acceptable with her', she said connected spin-off amusement Secrets from the Square.

The histrion was 1 of the originals connected the amusement erstwhile it archetypal began and was lone aged 17 astatine the time.

Letitia antecedently spoke astir however she was faced with changeless disapproval implicit her assemblage image- truthful overmuch truthful it damaged her self-confidence and contributed to her getting a bosom simplification erstwhile she was a teenager.

While determination were besides aesculapian reasons she chose to spell nether the knife, Letitia admitted vile remarks contributed to her decision.

"Backache had a batch to bash with that determination too" she told Hello! magazine successful October 2001. "But I was a batch little unafraid astir myself and determination was a batch of absorption connected however I looked."

"Occasionally, the attraction connected my quality inactive bothers maine - it bothers each women, doesn't it? - but I person those things successful position nowadays."

After reprising her relation arsenic Sharon from 2001-2006, Letitia took a interruption from the soap and starred successful Strictly Come Dancing a twelvemonth later, with the amusement helping her get successful shape.

Placing 4th successful the contention with dancer spouse Darren Bennett, the BBC favourite said it was the catalyst for her to overhaul her lifestyle.

She told Closer : "It started with Strictly Come Dancing due to the fact that I felt large by the extremity of the amusement and the unrecorded tour.

"But the main crushed I wanted to bash thing astir my fig was that I was truthful sick of utmost dieting and my value yo-yoing.

"I conscionable woke up 1 morning, and I'd had enough. For years and years - arsenic agelong arsenic I tin retrieve - my value had yo-yoed up and down. I'd spell connected fad diets similar Atkins oregon I'd lone devour eggs."

Letitia said portion she would beryllium capable to 'lose a chromatic successful a mates of weeks' connected the utmost diets, it wouldn't beryllium agelong until she would 'slip backmost into my aged ways and enactment it each connected again'.

But it was erstwhile she starred successful the signifier amusement High School Musical successful 2008 that the histrion dropped a staggering 2 stone- going from 10st 4lbs to 8st 3lbs and dropping 4 formal sizes.

Letitia told however she mislaid value the "good aged fashioned way" by upping her workout and making healthier repast choices.

"I went from a size 14 to size 10 and I've ne'er looked back. I started going to the gym for the archetypal clip past twelvemonth and present I've grown to emotion it - moving and boxercise are present my favourite things," she told Closer astatine the time.

"I mislaid value the bully old-fashioned way, done dancing and workout - I didn't starve myself oregon edifice to immoderate brainsick fad diet."