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Vanessa Feltz has revealed that her weight loss problems began after her mother Valerie forced her to take black market amphetamines to “lose weight” in her 20s.
In her new memoir Vanessa Bares All, the TV personality delves into her childhood trauma and explains what led her to her yo-yo diet.
She admits that her weight problems started when she was nine and was put on a very strict diet.
In the mirror In an exclusive look at the memoir, Vanessa says she was starved and often went hungry because her mother didn’t want her to gain an inch of weight.
She said: “When I was 20, my mother Valerie had started getting me diet pills from her hairdresser.”
Vanessa Feltz, 62, has revealed that her weight loss problems began after her mother Valerie forced her to take black market amphetamines to “lose weight” when she was 20.
In her new memoir Vanessa Bares All, the TV personality delves into her childhood trauma and explains what led her to her yo-yo diet (pictured in 1995).
‘Although I felt bad, the kilos magically evaporated. I wore a size eight. I released my hip bones. Pieces of skeleton were visible under my skin.
‘He was not thin, but the holiest of holy grails: thin, almost emaciated. He looked like a malnourished bush baby. “It was everything I had ever wanted.”
In a childhood memory, Vanessa explains that she was forced to eat a grapefruit for dinner while the rest of her family ate soup.
Looking back on her past, Vanessa said it almost felt like a “punishment,” but she never knew what she did to deserve it.
Vanessa first lost weight from a size 22 to a size 10 between 1999 and 2000, but then gained the weight back.
He lost second place in 2004, but won it again, and in 2007 he fell to third place, but everything came back and he finished again in size 22.
In 2010 he had a gastric band fitted which made his stomach smaller and prevented him from overeating, but he suffered complications when it became embedded in his liver.
Vanessa said she learned to eat differently with the gastric band: she couldn’t eat large amounts of solid foods but she could eat softer substances, like ice cream.
She admits that her weight problems began when she was nine years old and followed a very strict diet.
Vanessa says she was starved and often went hungry because her mother didn’t want her to gain an inch of weight.
In a childhood memory, Vanessa explains that she was forced to eat a grapefruit for dinner while the rest of her family ate soup.
The former Celebrity Big Brother housemate said she consumed “thousands of calories” and sabotaged the operation she had paid for.
Later in 2019, he decided to have a gastric bypass, in which a small pouch was created in his stomach and connected to the small intestine, bypassing the rest of the stomach, which meant he ate less food and felt more full for longer.
The procedure led to her losing an additional fifth and she has maintained that weight ever since.
Vanessa insists her overeating is due to her mental state, adding that once she underwent her surgical procedures she was comparable to the late footballer George Best, who continued to drink alcohol despite having a liver transplant.