Susannah Constantine has felt "invisible" since the end of ‘Trinny and Sussah’
The 56-year-old fashion expert – who has been announced as the final member to join ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ A-List panel – has felt lost since her 2005 style advice show was taken off the air.
Speaking to the Daily Express, Susannah said: "Women in their 50s all of a sudden become invisible. You’ve got to get a network to want to take a middle-aged woman and put her in something new. That just does not happen today.
"When I look back at photographs of myself I think, ‘God, I looked really good then and I was in really good shape’. Then I go and try clothes on – I can’t do the zip up past my waist. I think, ‘How did I ever get into that?’ I’d become a different person and I didn’t recognise that person."
Susannah was a prime-time presenter alongside her close friend Trinny Woodall, 54, but when the show ended 13 years ago, she found it hard to "rebrand" herself as a solo presenter.
She added: "It’s really hard to rebrand yourself when for so long Trinny and I were a unit. It was ‘Trinny and Susannah’. To be just ‘Susannah’ takes a long time to establish.
"In the last few years I have nosedived and become one of the people Trinny and I would help in our shows. If I had a lady who had lost her way and all her confidence, I could still help her. But I look in the mirror and I don’t know how to help myself."
During the lead up to ‘Strictly’, Susannah has lost two stone and has set her own personal goals to fulfil.
Opening up on her aims, she said: "I want to prove to myself aged 56 post-menopause, that I can be fitter than ever before. In four years I am going to be 60. Before, I was thinking that life really is going to be over. Now I feel my age and so what? I have had an amazing life and you know what, no regrets."
The 16th series of the ‘Strictly’ is expected to return in September 2018.
Strictly star Susannah Constantine feels invisible at aged 50
