She became the second contestant to quit Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls two weeks ago, following in Roxanne Pallett’s footsteps.
And Paris Lees, who became the first openly transgender women to appear in the pages of British Vogue at the beginning of the year, has revealed her extreme weight loss resulting from her stint on the show in before and after photographs shared on Instagram.
The Nottinghamshire-born journalist, whose age is unknown, blamed ‘nine days of no food’, and said she’d been unable to keep anything down after getting ‘violently’ sick as a result of dehydration in her early days on the show.
Paris said she was told to put on weight ahead of the Channel 4 series, filmed in aid of the channel’s Stand Up To Cancer campaign, which has seen celebrities including Pete Wicks, Martin Kemp and Jo Wood left to fend for themselves on an uninhabited island in the Pacific.
The Nottinghamshire-born journalist, whose age is unknown, blamed ‘nine days of no food’, revealing she was told to put on weight before appearing on the Channel 4 series in an Instagram post which showed her before the show (left) and after 2 weeks on the show (right)
Paris Lees, who was the first openly transgender model to appear on British Vogue at the beginning of the year, has revealed her extreme weight loss resulting from a fortnight on the show
However Paris quit the tough show after two weeks, and hit back at viewers who branded her ‘lazy’ online.
Taking to her Instagram page, which boasts over 16,000 followers, Paris revealed that she had been ‘violently sick’ after searching for water two days in, and was unable to keep food down after that.
Explaining that she had told the camp she did not want to bring them down, Paris said that she had made the right choice leaving and had since ‘put all the weight back on.
Posing in her underwear, Paris shared a shock before and after post of how the stint had changed her body in just two weeks.
She wrote: ‘Before and after Celebrity Island. They told me to put on weight before the show so I did. I was anxious so it was easy to eat!
‘The picture on the left is probably the biggest I’ve ever been as I’ve always been fairly slim.
‘The one on the right is after pretty much 9 days of no food. What they didn’t show you was that I was violently sick about 2 days in after becoming dehydrated searching for water.’
She continued: ‘I just couldn’t keep what little food we did find down after that. And neither would you if you’d thrown up and tried to eat a sh**ty limpet!
‘A week in, I collapsed, which is why you see me telling the doctor I feel ‘collapsy’ in the second episode – i.e. like how I did before I collapsed.’
The show, filmed on a remote Pacific island in aid of the channel’s Stand Up To Cancer campaign, sees celebrities including Pete Wicks, Martin Kemp and Jo Wood left to fend for themselves, however Paris says she couldn’t keep food down for nine days (seen on show)
Paris quit the tough show after two weeks, and hit back at viewers who branded her ‘lazy’ online, arguing that she did her best
Defending her appearance, she added: ‘If you think I was lazy that’s your problem. I went to do my best but sadly it didn’t work out.
‘I’ve put all the weight back on since then. It’s amazing what two weeks in a survival situation will do for a girl’s attitude towards biscuits, not to mention soft furnishings. I’m all about that silk and velvet life. Peace and love.’
In January Paris became the first openly transgender woman to appear in British Vogue, during a shoot celebrating 100 years since women got the right to vote.
April Ashley previously appeared in British Vogue in the 1950s, however it was not openly known that she was transgender until a decade later.
Paris underwent hormone replacement therapy then facial feminisation surgery in 2012, and identifies as a bisexual trans woman.
Paris underwent hormone replacement therapy then facial feminisation surgery in 2012, and identifies as a bisexual trans woman