Big Brother’s Chanelle Hayes has been battling a long-standing eating disorder. Following a gastric sleeve, the star is looking confident in a bikini in Spain.
Chanelle Hayes is a British TV personality famous for appearing on Big Brother in 2007 when she was only 19. With the paparazzi snapping more pictures than the cameras of the Channel 4 reality show, we have seen her body transform over the years. Hayes has been candid about her gastric sleeve surgery following weight gain caused by an eating disorder. In recent pictures papped in Spain she looks glowing and confident in her new body.
Hayes looks confident in post-wedding getaway with husband
Now 36-years-old, the Big Brother star has been open about her 60kg weight loss, much of which came from gastric sleeve surgery in 2020. The star has shared regular updates with fans on social media documenting this journey.
Recently, jetting off on holiday with husband Dan Bingham, Chanelle was spotted killing-it in a baby-pink bikini on the beaches of sunny Spain.
Hayes accessorized her toned figure with a simple necklace, wristwatch and sunglasses. Full of confidence, she was snapped walking up and down the beach and chilling her toes in the water. Topped with a down-played messy-bun, she seems self-assured in her understated look.
‘Covering-up’ with a see-through crochet dress, it demonstrates Chanelle is confident enough to bare-all to the public in person as well as on Instagram.
The holiday comes shortly after she married her fiancé of two-years on June 28, 2024. Clad in an off-the-shoulder white gown on the big day, Chanelle revealed to OK! magazine: “I did feel amazing on my wedding day, but I didn’t anticipate being that thin.”
Hayes takes it one day at a time recovering from eating disorder
The star has previously suffered with an eating disorder that involves binge-eating, something she struggled with during the 2020 lockdown.
This took a toll on her body and her weight started to spiral out of control. Speaking of her weight gain, she told The Sun: “It was horrendous. I didn’t want to see or speak to anyone. I didn’t even want to leave the house or go anywhere – I was like a hermit in my home.”
Continuing, “I literally saw nobody, so I definitely didn’t have a love life. I didn’t even have a life. I just couldn’t bear to do anything.”
On Instagram, Chanelle tries to support others in the binge-eating community by being candid about her current struggles and how this illness can relapse at any time.
In a post about “a mare of a day when it comes to moderation” Hayes talks about feeling “guilty, out of control, poorly, uncomfortable and angry.” Yet she reassures others by stating “this is normal” and “tomorrow is a new day”.
Fans are keen to ask lots of questions about her weight loss journey, for which she doesn’t recommend everyone makes a dash for the surgical option. In another post she discusses how a bariatric procedure may have ‘changed her life’ but it is by no means an ‘easy option’ as it “changes the way you eat/digest forever.”
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