Gemma Collins has confessed that she would deliberately make herself “look fatter” in snaps to earn more cash.
The Diva Forever star, 43, would go to extreme lengths to disguise her real body shape on social media, often making herself appear larger than she actually was. It’s something that Gemma isn’t proud of and deeply regrets now.
At the time, Gemma was asked to promote Skinny Jab and she explained that they had offered her a considerable amount of money to post transformation pictures. It was an offer that she simply couldn’t refuse at the time.
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Back then, she was fresh out of TOWIE and found it hard to find work like her co-stars did. The reality star explained on The Mail’s Everything I know About Me podcast, that the other girls on the ITV programme all had amazing figures and were able to promote clothes – and, she said, they were also younger and had youth on their side.
(Image: Instagram/ @gemmacollins)
Gemma knew after she’d filmed her final episode that she had to “act fast” and get some side hustles under her belt. When Skinny Jab approached her, it was a quick and easy way to make more cash while staying current.
Speaking honestly, Gemma admitted that she did “play the game” and would also deliberately “make herself look fatter” while standing in the park in a bid to get more money for the pictures. In her opinion, Gemma did what she had to do in order to survive in the fast paced industry.
(Image: Instagram/gemmacollins)
On reflection, the GC explained that she is now humbled for the opportunities that she has been dealt in life – such as a huge online following – but now realises it “comes with responsibility”. She therefore conducts better research before promoting just any product on her profile.
Gemma also discussed one of her first gigs after TOWIE, which was a bootcamp where she was paid £20,000. During her bootcamp stint, the GC was required to take part in eight hours of exercise per day and “almost passed out” from a lack of food.
(Image: Instagram/gemmacollins)
The TV icon explained that she’d been left fuming after she’d put herself through bootcamp to be rudely greeted by an editor who was not happy with her results. Gemma was told she “hadn’t got thin enough”.
She recalled: “I remember going off when the first series ended and I had to act quick. People have to act quick, you can’t leave things. So I was shipped off to a bootcamp where I was forced to workout for eight hours a day and eat nothing.
“My first deal was £20,000 and obviously that was a lot of money to me back then and I went to the interview and the editor said to me when I turned up that I hadn’t got thin enough.” In that moment, Gemma decided that there was “lack of compassion” and that it wasn’t the industry for her.
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