Carol Vorderman says she is fed up that people only talk about her bottom – not her brains.
The 59-year-old Countdown maths guru says she gets ‘hundreds’ of comments a day about the way she looks.
But all the attention on her appearance means her academic accomplishments and career get ignored, she says.
“One of the sad things is that people think I am only ever talking about the way I look,” she said.
“I just choose to pay no attention to it.
“I was a free school meals kid. I got to Cambridge from a comprehensive. That just didn’t happen in the 70s.
“Now I do a lot of work with kids from a similar background to me. I have my online maths school, I sell I-don’t-know-how-many education books a year. But that never gets talked about.”
“Instead it’s, `how big is her bottom?'”
Carol is fed up that all people talk about is her bum – and not her academic achievements (Image: Twitter)
Despite being in the best shape of her life Carol, who appeared Loose Women for three years and guest hosted Have I Got News For You and Lorraine, is proud is not skinny.
“I’m not thin but I am a size 10,” she told Platinum magazine.
“I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top.”
She credits her fabulous figure on long walks, three gym sessions-a-week and 20,000 squats-a-year.
But as she approaches 60 the mum-of-two has no intention of finding a new partner.
Carol got into Cambridge University from a comprehensive school and wowed Countdown fans with her maths skills (Image: @carolvorders/Twitter)
“I absolutely do not want to settle down,” she said.
“I’m not very good at it.
“And if you’re happy and something’s working out why change it?
“I’d be happy to stay single now because I’ve always been in relationships.
“For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want.”
Carol has been teaching kids maths from home amid the coronavirus lockdown (Image: ITV)
She also looks back with pride at being at the forefront of combatting sexism and ageism on TV.
“When I started in TV there was just me, Angela Rippon, Esther Rantzen, Anna Ford and the ‘dolly birds’ as they were called,” she said.
“There weren’t presenter jobs for women. We had to fight for all that.
“My generation have had to fight the fight the entire time and things changed because we forced it on them.
“They put you in a category just because you were born in a certain year, but hopefully this is the last battle we’ll have to fight.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
