TOWIE star Saffron Lempriere opened up on her 22kg weight loss and laid bare how gaining five stone left her “depressed.”
The 34-year-old appeared on and ‘s podcast, By The Brook , and admitted her weight gain came as she starred on the ITV show.
told how she piled on roughly five stone over the course of her time on Towie and it was “quite a lot for such a small amount of time.”
She revealed she’d been suffering with depression and an under active thyroid.
“I come into the industry eight years ago. I’d always been curvy, well, size 12 to 14 – that was always my dress size,” said
“I was a lot slimmer back then throughout my time on the show and up to now, I gained weight, I gained five stone over a period of time that was really quite short.
“It was quite a lot for the small amount of time. But I did go to the doctors and my thyroid had gone underactive.”
Saffron continued: “So with that is weight gain. But I’d already gained the weight by then. If I’m being truthful I was suffering with depression.”
Sophie then confessed that she too has faced struggles with comfort eating.
admitted she has turned to food when she was both “happy” and “sad.”
“Sad, yeah that’s me,” replied Saffron.
“I went into a really bad place. Drinks not my vice, no, I’m not much of a party girl really… but the food was the comfort… and it spiralled.
“Don’t get me wrong, now it’s all in moderation.”
Back in January, with the help of fat jabs.
She showed off her sensational new look on Instagram as she posed in a swimsuit.
The TV star captioned the post: “This feels like a big milestone for me. I’m finally nearing my goal weight and feeling like myself again after losing 22 kg.”
A number of her TOWIE co-stars took to the comment section to praise Saffron’s weight loss, Joe Blackman, Freddie Bentley, Junaid Ahmed and Courtney Green.
Saffron began her weight loss journey on the programme last year and
