One time champ 's weight ballooned as she targeted on taking good care of daughter Ella, now three, and she or he began to keep away from her husband , 44, any time she was in her underwear. Medical doctors labeled her as "overweight", however because the pair misplaced seven stone between them, she's deserted the saggy pants and regained her sexual urge for food.
After dropping three costume sizes and returning to the svelte measurement 8 determine she'd had when she received Strictly, 40-year-old Ola has way more confidence than earlier than.
"Let's simply say getting match and dropping practically 4 stone, I've thrown away my Bridget Jones pants as soon as and for all," she exclaimed triumphantly.
"I am sporting attractive lingerie once more and feeling so significantly better about my physique. James can barely sustain with me!"
She added to Nearer journal: "I need to say for some time I prevented James seeing me in my underwear as I did not be ok with my physique."
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James had beforehand admitted that he discovered his spouse extra fanciable earlier than her weight achieve, controversially claiming: "Most males want their wives match and wholesome."
He added to Fabulous journal on the time: "Intercourse is certainly not higher with the mum and pa bods. I am unable to throw her about any extra like I'm used to doing."
Ola's weight additionally sabotaged her social life, as her weight achieve made her so self-conscious that she most well-liked to remain at dwelling on the couch sipping a glass of wine as a substitute of taking on a celebration invite.
In a notoriously image-conscious trade, the place showbiz occasions and pink carpet posing periods have been a part of her life, the dancer felt uncomfortable.
Ola, who's now 40, revealed that she even struggled with fertility attributable to piling on the kilos, and that docs warned her to make a change.
Little Ella was conceived by way of IVF, and Ola subsequently acquired skilled recommendation telling her to drop extra pounds if she was thinking about having a second child.
She has admitted that she would like to seize the chance for extra youngsters, revealing throughout a GB Information interview in September 2022 that it is on her to-do listing.
"If it would not [happen naturally], I'll go for an additional IVF [treatment]," she vowed.
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Nevertheless, she acknowledged: "On the similar time, it is one thing that you do not actually need to must do. You need to conceive naturally."
Ola has been married to James since 2003, however despite their tight-knit 20-year marriage, they delayed being pregnant for many of that point to give attention to their careers.
Now she would love to have the ability to give Ella a sibling, and thinks she's again to tiptop bodily situation to have the ability to achieve this.
In the meantime, Ola has been as complimentary about James' weight reduction as he has been about hers.
She admitted to Fabulous journal that she finds him way more fascinating within the appears to be like division "now he is received his six-pack again".
"He appears to be like a lot fitter and youthful since he misplaced weight. I am unable to preserve my fingers off him!" she exclaimed.
Then she added: "The intercourse is best as a result of James can decide me up and throw me about once more... [it's] nearly as good as once we first received collectively!"
In the meantime, the pair have turned their weight reduction transformation right into a enterprise, launching the web site Dance Shred to assist others trying to shed the kilos too.