How Fern Britton lost five stones and became so fit that she was able to part

Fern Britton was open about his fights with his weight.

This Morning presenter loved showing off her five-stone weight loss in 2008 – but how did she lose it?

Speaking in 2011, at age 53, the star was delighted to tell her fans that she was wearing clothes of the same size as she was wearing at the age of 24 – and that she could make the big difference.

But the most important message for Fern was honesty.

She said that she did not want to lie about how she had managed to lose so much weight and admitted that she had an adjusted gastric band.

A gastric ring is an inflatable silicone device placed around the upper part of the stomach to treat obesity and intended to reduce food consumption.

Fern had indeed revealed the truth about his gastric group three years earlier, a year before leaving his post. She presented This Morning alongside Phillip Schofield.

She has encountered many criticisms from people who claim to have lied about losing weight.

At the time, she was the face of Ryvita and regularly talked about the benefits of healthy eating and exercise.

So did she lie?

"I did not lie," she told the Daily Mail. "No one ever asked me how I lost weight, it's something I did for myself and I naively thought I had the right to privacy, but it's clear that I am not. "

Ferne went on to say that she had a gastric band fit for health reasons.

She said, "My cholesterol was high. My knee joints were starting to hurt me. I could not run. I was nearing 50 and I thought, "You know what? I will be different when I will be 50 & # 39;

"I was riding like crazy and nothing was happening.My GP said I was a good candidate for a group, so I left, I had to be in good health. I was not unhappy with the way I was, I was in poor health, I was recovering from having children, a divorce, all those emotional things. "

Fern said that eating had been a "comfort" for her during these difficult times of her life.

She said that having the right group changed her life.

She said: "For me, it worked, I now have good cholesterol, I'm incredibly fit, I'm the same size as I was 24. I can do the splits."

Now 61, Fern still looks amazing.

She stunned viewers last year when she came back in good health and younger at This Morning.

Fern is so comfortable in her skin that she takes her kit every night in the musical version of Calendar Girls.

She plays alongside Denise Welch in the famous show that tells the true story of a group of Yorkshire women who created a nudity calendar for charities.

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