Linda: Bold, brave, unfiltered – You go girl!
Linda Robson has bravely stripped off for a new campaign by LooseWomen – and reveals that she’s happy to show the ‘unfiltered’ me…
Stars of daytime panel show Loose Women stripped off recently as part of the show’s powerful Body Stories campaign, which they first did back in 2017.
They appeared in a series of black and white before and after snaps, railing against ‘ body tuning’ – apps which create a ‘tuned’ filtered version of the person, digitally removing any imperfections.
‘I’ve got cellulite but that’s part of ageing’
And one of the brave ladies, joining pals such as Stacey Solomon, Coleen Nolan, Denise Welch and Nadia Sawalha in snaps before they were ‘ body tuned’, then after – was popular ‘Loosie’, Linda Robson.
Linda has had her fair share of body battles, over the years, like most women.
As well as a secret battle with OCD, drinking and depression, which led to a breakdown over Christmas 2018 – her weight, and her relationship with her body, has been up and down.
Now, at the age of 63, the Birds Of
A Feather actress is back to a more healthy weight, and seems to have finally accepted her body.
‘I’ve got veins and cellulite, but that’s part of growing old,’ she confessed.
The proud grandmother added, ‘ When I post online I’d rather it was funny than glamorous. I want to have a laugh with people.
‘I’m not that worried about my body any more. It is what it is. You get to 63, and obviously I’ve got veins and cellulite, but that’s part of growing old, I suppose.
‘I don’t feel as nervous as I did for the first campaign. The reaction was just amazing last time. I’ve got the picture up in my kitchen.
‘Loads of people were then doing their own Body Stories. It helped a lot of people.”
It’s been quite a roller coaster for Linda to get to this point of acceptance.
Back in
January
2017,
Linda told her fellow panellists that she’d decided to overhaul her unhealthy habits, after it was revealed on a previous episode that she used to eat the sugary equivalent of
100 doughnuts every month.
Linda embraced her new lifestyle, took up yoga and lost
3st in 2018, dropping to a size 10, having banned sugar and ditched what she admitted was a bottle of wine a night.
Speaking later on
Loose Women, however, she admitted that she’d lost too much weight, which ‘made her look 90’.
We’re so glad she’s in such a good place now. Linda, you are our absolute inspiration!