Convicted drug smuggler Cocaine Cassie Sainsbury reveals dramatic weight loss as she hints at new Adelaide business venture

Convicted international drug smuggler Cassie Sainsbury, nicknamed Cocaine Cassie, will release a fitness program following her dramatic weight loss.

Sainsbury shared the new venture alongside a selfie showing off her toned stomach to her Instagram on Friday.

She captioned the photo, ‘Sun-1 Cassie-0’ after getting sunburnt.

In a separate post, Sainsbury said she has dropped four dress sizes in five months by sticking to her ‘fitness program’.

‘So since March this year I have managed to lose four sizes,’ she wrote.

Sainsbury (above) said she’s dropped four dress sizes since March by sticking to her routine

‘In February/March I was a size 12, [I] weight on due to some personal and health issues. Today I can comfortably fit into a size 6/8.

‘It took me a lot of hard work to do it and that is why I decided to create what I did into a fitness program.

‘It’s called the hourglass challenge – for those ladies who want to achieve the hourglass look. It will be released soon.’

Sainsbury was a failed gym owner before she was arrested in Columbia in April, 2017, when she was caught trying to leave the country with 5.8kg of cocaine in her luggage.

The bust shot her to international infamy and she was dubbed ‘Cocaine Cassie’.

She was sentenced to six years behind bars at Columbia’s notorious El Buen Pastor prison but only served three before she was released.

The jail, in Colombia’s capital of Bogota, is renowned for its harsh conditions and overcrowding.

Sainsbury spent another two years on parole in South America before returning to Australia last year to live in Adelaide with her wife, Tatiana. 

The pair married one year ago after meeting in a Colombian nightclub. 

However, Sainsbury told the Herald Sun in March the move back home has been anything but easy.

Sainsbury earned herself the nickname ‘Cocaine Cassie’ when she was caught trying to smuggle 5.8kg of cocaine (above) out of Columbia

‘Trying to get a job and move forward. I quite often get told that I’m a murderer, that I’m quite conniving and cold and don’t show remorse,’ she said.

‘People can’t show emotions because that’s a sign of weakness so I buried the sadness and I’d feel I pretty much got to a point where it would explode. I’m not this nasty person.’

She added she sadly didn’t have friends in Australia and her family life was in ‘bits and pieces’.

‘What got to me was I had friends writing letters supporting me and then on social media writing crap about me. It is what it is,’ she said.