Danniella poses in her bikini to show off her newly trim bod after losing two stone that the British weather made her pile on

Danniella poses in her bikini to show off her newly trim bod after losing two stone that the British weather made her pile on

The only good thing about the miserably wet and cold British spring that we’ve been cursed with this year is that it’s stalled the annual terrifying move into beachwear, meaning it doesn’t matter if we continue eating chocolate every day.

Of course it does matter really… a lot. Because when the sun does eventually shine (rumoured to be this week, but let’s not tempt fate) and we face the prospect of only wearing two pieces of small material to cover our entire body or covering up in a kaftan and not getting any rays on our Vitamin D deprived white flesh while on the beach, we’ll be wishing we’d replaced the coco beans with edamame beans as we’d planned in January.

Danniella Westbrook doesn’t have that problem, because she’s been on a very sensible diet and exercise plan for the last three months and now looks like this in her bikini.

Twit-twoo: Danniella says she's particularly pleased that she's toned up her arms and tummy

 

“I love how toned my body looks, especially my tummy. I’ve discovered I can lose weight while still eating some of my favourite foods!” she’s excitedly told this week’s Closer magazine.

Danniella, who was the victim of some cruel online abuse over her appearance back in February at a showbiz party, has gone from a size 12 and 10 stone to a size 8, weighing 8 stone, which is pretty blimin’ impressive.            

The Saturdays have been flashing the flesh recently too, which you know you want to see 

She started her diet around the same time as the nasty meanies gave her stick via Twitter, but she also says it was down to a health scare.

Emotional discovery: Daniella feared she had cancer after finding lumps

 

Danniella has breast implants and after suffering pain, she thought one of them had burst. It hadn’t but she then discovered some lumps in her breasts, which turned out to be blocked lymph nodes.

The whole drama was enough to shake the former coke addict into doing something about her health though: “It was scary, and it made me reassess my lifestyle â€" I wanted to get healthier. I hated my flabby tummy and was finding it hard to fit into some of my dresses. But I love carbs â€" so I just wanted to find an eating plan that was healthy, but not too restrictive.”

So what was it that made the normally trim Danniella pile on the pounds then? The frickin’ British weather, that’s what.

Nasty meanies said Danniella looked old at this fashion party

 

She started comfort eating pies, roast potatoes and curry after moving back here following two years living in sunny Orange County, Florida.

“You forget how cold England is during the winter. You don’t want to go outside so you stay indoors eating,” she revealed, while justifying, a tiny bit, those other three squares of Dairy Milk we just ate while finishing this story off.

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The full story is in this week's Closer magazine, on sale now.

This week's Closer magazine