Scarlett Moffat has said she’s very happy being a size 18 and encourages everyone to celebrate their bodies without having to rely on ‘fatties unite’.
The TV star, 31, is trying to get everyone body positive and gives her take on feeling confident.
Having lost three stone herself once, and being both a size 8 and 18, the Gogglebox star says she knows how it feels to be both sizes, but says body confidence is all about celebrating our bodies.
She believes as long as people are healthy, nice to others, and true to themselves, then everyone should celebrate themselves.
Scarlett Moffat has said she’s very happy being a size 18 and encourages everyone to celebrate their bodies without having to rely on ‘fatties unite’
The TV star lost three stone before going into the I’m a Celeb jungle in 2016, and after she released a DVD, but was shrouded in controversy due to the route of her weight
She told The Sun this week: ‘The thing with being body positive and having body confidence is just celebrating everybody’s body.
‘I think sometimes people have this misconception that it’s like ‘fatties unite’.
‘Genuinely, no matter what you look like, just celebrate you. As long as you are healthy, being yourself and you’re being nice to people, you do you. That’s the big thing that I want to get across.’
Scarlett’s career started on MTV, but she’s best known for being a star in Channel 4’s Gogglebox along side her parents, before she went on to win the sixteenth series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! in 2016.
Since, she’s done a number of programmes, including the I’m a Celebrity side show Extra Camp and Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. More recently she’s been involved in a number of documentaries.
Scarlett’s career started on MTV, but she’s best known for being a star in Channel 4’s Gogglebox along side her parents
However, before entering I’m A Celeb, Scarlett lost three stone after being told by a doctor she was ‘obese’, which prompted her to she exercise regularly and follow a calorie deficit diet.
After being crowned the Queen of the Jungle, Scarlett went on to launch her SuperSlim Me Plan DVD, and it was extremely successful.
But there were rumours Scarlett had achieved her weight loss through going to intense boot camps and eating just 700 calories a day, and not the workouts in her DVD – rumours the star has denied.
The star is now on a positive outlook journey saying: ‘People need to look in the mirror and give themselves a compliment. So many times in the past I missed out on things because I was self-conscious.’
Last year, Scarlett joined Frankie Bridge on her Open Mind podcast and spoke about her weight loss journey.
She said: ‘I’ve deleted all my before and after pictures…Not only were they bad for my peace of mind it wasn’t really good for other people because now I look like my before picture again.’
Scarlett added: ‘I sort of rebelled against [my] DVD because I just didn’t like how it happened and I just wasn’t for it anymore.
‘I purposefully started putting weight on. I was sort of like, ‘if I get big again it can’t get brought up’. I can’t have this stigma attached to me about this DVD and people will stop buying it.’
The 31-year-old said she lost weight after a doctor told her she was obese, but since, her weight has fluctuated and admitted she’s always found it hard to feel positive about her body
Scarlett went on to reveal that she did actually follow the diet on the DVD, saying she ‘cut out a lot’ to shed weight.
She said: ‘I think people thought I had been walking and rambling up mountains for six months but it wasn’t, I genuinely did just do those exercises [in the DVD] but obviously I had to cut out a lot of food from what I was normally eating.
‘I think now that is what I want to try to say to people – ‘please don’t think that you can just own this DVD and then instantly you can lose that amount of weight, it is a lot of pressure and it is a lot of work.’
The TV addict, who grew up in Bishop Auckland with her parents Betty, now 51, and Mark, 56, and little sister Ava-Grace, 15, is now all about a good mental attitude.
The TV addict, who grew up in Bishop Auckland with her parents Betty, now 51, and Mark, 56, and little sister Ava-Grace, 15, is now all about a good mental attitude
She said: ‘I have friends who are so aesthetically beautiful and they still pull themselves to bits. I just want people to not be so hard on themselves.’
‘People need to look in the mirror and give themselves a compliment. So many times in the past I missed out on things because I was self-conscious. I didn’t go to pool parties in Las Vegas three years ago.
‘I think back and go: ‘Why did I let that happen? Why did I let this bother me?’ I realised when I’m lying on my deathbed, I’m not gonna remember that time I got loads of likes and looked really good.’
Scarlett now has a secret trick to banish any bad thoughts about herself.
‘There is a really good TikTok trend where you [share] a photo of your younger self and whenever I’m nasty to myself, I remember I’m talking to her.
‘The thought of looking at a six-year-old and going: ‘You are this, you are that…’ It’s awful. Just have this mini you in your head and try to be nice to them. It always helps me.’
Scarlett’s most recent work, a documentary for Channel 4, Britain’s Tourette’s Mystery: Scarlett Moffatt Investigates, was close to her heart.
She suffered from Bell’s palsy – a condition that causes facial muscle weakness or paralysis and tics – for several months when she was 11.
‘It was always on my bucket list to do a documentary. But I wanted to do it on a subject that really meant something to me. It took six years to get here as I think I had to get myself to a position where people could take me seriously enough to do a documentary.
‘I like being people’s friend, but you’ve got to ask those hard questions. I did go into it thinking: ‘Do I need to angle myself a bit differently?’ But then I thought: ‘No, if they wanted Louis Theroux or Stacey Dooley, they would have asked them.’
And we’ll soon see her in a brand new BBC series Driving School. Scarlett has in fact failed her test a total of 13 times and now she will host a brand new show that sees learner drivers, who have been taught by their family in the pandemic because they were unable to have professional lessons.
Each new hopeful learner will take an intensive driving course with some of the top driving instructions in the UK to try and pass their test after just five days of lessons.
The new 10 part series will be similar to the 1997 original, Driving School which was filmed in Bristol and South Wales.
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