Gemma’s Ultimate Body Plan E FIT & FAB ar’s recipe to f ighting flab

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guiding us confident y Plan. igh-intenus teenage years when cruel schoolkids called her thunder thighs. Even as she started to find fame on the Channel 4 soap, fans would taunt her about her appearance.

And when her dad David died suddenly from a heart attack in 2002, aged 52, she was in so much pain that she stopped caring about herself and went off the rails.

She said: “I’d think nothing of going out on an evening and sinking five shots of vodka. My friends ds and I would go out on Friday and Saturday nights drinking, having ng a Mcdonald’s on the Saturday and a big Chinese takeaway on the Sunday.”

In 2008 she suffered another heartbreak, when she split from her Premier League footballer fiancé Marcus Bent.

Gemma stopped eating as much but started losing weight in an unhealthy way.

But four years on she learnt how to exercise and eat properly with personal trainer Olly Foster, wh who she went on to date.

The Ultimate Bod Body Plan’s three-phase exercise plan can be done both at home, with free weights, or in the gym.

Here we featur feature two of her beginner workouts. All that th is needed is some dumbbells and some commitment. Beginners should start with 2kg weights, do four workouts a week a and gradually build up

their thei strength.