Reality TV star Shaughna Phillips, known for her appearance on Love Island , has undergone a remarkable transformation, shedding five stone over the past year through dedicated diet and exercise.
She credits her daughter, Lucia, as her primary motivation for this lifestyle change. In a candid interview, Shaughna discussed her journey, emphasizing the challenges of balancing motherhood with fitness goals. She also expressed concerns about potential weight gain during future pregnancies, reflecting on her previous experience and the impact it had on her health.
She told the Daily Mail: "I'm a reactive eater and I look to food as a comfort. If there's anything stressful in my life that's how I dealt with it, anything sweet and biscuits. It's so easy to just get through a whole packet for custard creams."
Shaughna's recent weight gain follows a challenging year, marked by becoming a single mother while managing a strained relationship and her career. After giving birth to her daughter Lucia in April 2023, Shaughna faced the shock of her boyfriend of four years, Billy Webb, 29, being sentenced to nine years in prison for his involvement in a cocaine trafficking scheme worth over £360,000.
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Instagram/ @shaughnasshreditplan)The Love Island star recently a video on Instagram, contrasting herself today to how she looked over a year ago. In the video, Shaughna placed a clip of herself 14 months ago on the left, in which she sat and chatted while wearing a bandeau-style orange bikini. On the right, she wore the exact same bikini, admitting she’d had to adjust the piece in order to make it fit her much smaller frame.
Shaughna said: “I can’t believe that was me in that video. And this is the same iconic bikini - albeit with a few adjustments because it just didn’t fit me anymore, but now I’m back. That video was taken over 14 months ago now, and I’m so glad you can finally see the hard work that I’ve put in.
“I have so much compassion for that person in that video, because she was going through it. She was new to motherhood, she was fighting trials and tribulations that everyone’s life throws at them, and it creeps up on you. But I decided to take hold and take control of my life. I have now dropped over five stone, and dropped over six dress sizes. And I’m very happy with the end product!”
Shaughna also touched upon the health scare that prompted her weight loss, revealing: “Now I have to be honest, although I’m loving the way my clothes are looking and I’m loving the way I look in the mirror, this was not done for vanity. I had quite a serious health scare when I had a scan and they told me I had loads of visceral fat around my organs, which can lead to so many nasty illnesses. I have a daughter now and it is my goal in life to be the best role model and the best mum I can be for her - so this was all for her, albeit a little bit of my waistline was shed in the process.”
The ITV star, who welcomed baby Lucia last year, added: “Although this has been over 14 months in the making, it’s only really been recently that people on my social media have noticed a change. Even when I dropped three stone, I was still getting trolled and called ‘fat,’ bla bla bla. It was exhausting, but now I have so many of you asking how I’ve done it - and actually some people are getting a little bit angry and thinking I’m withholding some secret. I promise you I’m not. I just had to take my time with this.”
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