He reached a staggering 27 kilos during lockdown as his diet spiraled out of control.
But now, TOWIE star James Argent has told how he wants to gain weight again after losing almost 14 kilos when he overhauled his lifestyle and underwent a sleeve gastrectomy procedure.
The reality star, 36, who rose to fame when she joined the Essex-set reality show in 2010, revealed she is now working on gaining weight, which is currently 13.5 stone.
He spoke exclusively to the Mail comedy podcast, Straight to the comments! encompassing the hilarity and uniqueness of the MailOnline comments section with the celebrities in question.
‘At my biggest moment I weighed 27 kilos. I took the p***. Now I weigh about 13.5 kilos,’ she said.
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James Argent had said that he wants to gain weight again after losing almost 14 kilos when he reviewed his lifestyle and underwent a sleeve gastrectomy procedure (left, in January of this year and right, before his 2021 surgery) .
“I think I was just acting on my feelings and emotions, eating and eating and then lockdown, Covid, that didn’t help.”
He admitted that his doctor told him he was “on death row” when he was at his heaviest, during which time he “couldn’t tie my shoelaces” and “had a hard time breathing.”
Argent, known as ‘Arg’, said he wasn’t even able to see his own penis, joking: “I can almost see it now.”
Despite his positive lifestyle change, Argent said there were times when he actually got “too skinny” and he’s currently trying to “up” his protein and “gain a little more.”
He said fans’ supportive comments pushed him to lose weight, but people have to be “careful” about what they say.
“You know, when you get comments like, ‘You look good, keep going,’ it cheers you up, it makes you feel better,” he said.
“I think you have to be very careful, if you’re trying to make someone look healthy, I think – he used to tell me, ‘the more weight you lose, the better,’ so the thinner you are, the better, but that’s not really the case. case because there are times when you are too thin.
He added: “And even now I’m trying to increase my protein intake a little bit and gain a little more.”
Argent, who watched his private and professional life on the ITV2 reality show for almost a decade, has previously said that getting the gastric sleeve in 2021 was “incredible and life-changing”.
Despite his positive lifestyle change, Argent said there were times when he actually became “too skinny” and he is currently trying to “up” his protein and “gain a little more.”
The TV star recently made an unlikely friend in former Health Secretary Matt Hancock when they appeared together on Channel 4’s Celebrity SAS.
He admitted that they still keep in touch and that the former politician communicates with him from time to time on WhatsApp.
“He was very supportive and kind to me and kind, so as much as people probably loved me to criticize him and hate him, I can’t,” she said on the podcast.
“Sometimes I receive the occasional WhatsApp; yes, I have it on WhatsApp.”
He said the last message he received from Hancock thanked him for being “a legend” and wished him a “happy new year” full of “joy, happiness and prosperity.”
Argent appeared as celebrity guest of the week with Archie Manners and Josh Pieters as they helped break down some of the most outrageous and cover-worthy statements left in MailOnline stories in the new podcast.
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The TV star recently made an unlikely friend in former Health Secretary Matt Hancock when they appeared on Celebrity SAS (pictured with TOWIE’s Amber Turner).
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