Scarlett Moffatt "purposefully put on weight" to "rebel against" her fitness DVD.
The 30-year-old star – who lost three stone and went from a size 18 to a size eight for the 2018 release – has opened up about the ‘SuperSlim Me Plan’ DVD, describing the extreme diet as the "worst thing" she’s ever done.
Speaking on Frankie Bridge’s ‘Open Mind’ podcast, she said: "I slowly realised it was quite detrimental to my mental health.
"I’ve also deleted all my before and after pictures … not only were they bad for my peace of mind it wasn’t really good for other people because now I look like my before picture again.
"I sort of rebelled against the DVD because I just didn’t like how it happened and I just wasn’t for it anymore.
"I purposefully started putting weight on.
"I was sort of like, ‘If I get big again it can’t get brought up’. I can’t have this stigma attached to me about this DVD and people will stop buying it."
The former ‘Gogglebox’ and ‘Saturday Night Takeaway’ star revealed her weight loss was down to controlling her diet.
She added: "I think people thought I had been walking and rambling up mountains for six months but it wasn’t, I genuinely did just do those exercise [in the DVD] but obviously I had to cut out a lot of food from what I was normally eating.
"I think now that is what I want to try to say to people, ‘Please don’t think that you can just own this DVD and then instantly you can lose that amount of weight, it is a lot of pressure and it is a lot of work.’ "
Scarlett is now doing her best to embrace her body.
She said: "I wore a swimsuit in a water park, which I know doesn’t sound like a massive step.
"But for me that was massive, especially in front of my boyfriend, because normally I would wear cover ups and kaftans and short and T-shirt."
Scarlett Moffatt deliberately ‘put on weight’ in fitness DVD protest
