Gemma Collins has revealed her heartbreak over being secretly filmed working out at the gym by trolls who posted the clip on Facebook saying: “Look at this fat pig.”
The TOWIE star, who is currently seen in her own ITVBe show Diva On Lockdown, called the experience “really traumatic”.
Speaking on the latest offering of her BBC show The Gemma Collins Podcast, she explained why she doesn’t like to workout at the gym anymore.
She said: “I often go for walks but the newest thing I’ve done – and fallen in absolute love with it – is bike riding.
“I bought myself a bike in isolation and a helmet and I love it. It’s built my confidence up because not everyone is confident to exercise.
“I’ve been in gyms before and people have recorded me on their mobile phones and uploaded it on Facebook and said: ‘Look at this fat pig’ which has been really traumatic for me to see.”
Gemma Collins said she was heartbroken after trolls filmed her at the gym and and called her a ‘fat pig’ (Image: ITV)
Talking about how she was told to attend intense exercise classes when she first found fame, Gemma, 39, added: “When I first became known in public I was sent off to bootcamps.
“I was thrown into all this madness of weight loss and weight gain and I was made to feel ashamed of my body.
“It’s something we couldn’t speak about back then but I’m telling the truth. It’s something that now probably wouldn’t be allowed to happen.
Gemma has recently lost weight in the last few months thanks to healthy eating and a new exercise regime (Image: Instagram)
“I can remember I lost three and a half stone weight loss. It was painful, it was excruciating, it was hell. I had to exercise eight hours a day. It was very tiring, very exhausting. I came away seeing exercise as punishment.
She added: “There was something in my brain when it came to exercising – my stomach would churn, my heart would go and beat funny. I’d be like: ‘I just don’t want to do this.’
“I’d get a mental block. I do like exercising. It makes you feel good and gets the endorphins going. So I decided to do low impact exercise and exercise I enjoy.”
Gemma has recently lost weight in the last few months thanks to healthy eating and a new exercise regime.
The star looked slimmer than ever this week as she posed in a red bra on Instagram.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
