This Morning star Alison Hammond has struggled with her weight for much of her adult life, but now she feels amazing, and finally happy within herself.
At her heaviest, she was close to 30 stone, and used to buy an extra seat on planes to avoid putting her neighbour in an awkward position. Now, she has lost a remarkable amount of weight.
And she has been open about her obesity at various points during her TV career, from her “distressing” experience of having a gastric band, to feeling “embarrassed” by how much she weighed.
So, what was the secret to her success?
Alison has been a fixture on our TV screens for many years (Credit: ITV)
Alison Hammond was motivated to lose weight after mum’s death
This Morning host Alison Hammond – on Michael McIntyre’s Big Show this weekend (August 23) – said the death of her mother catalysed the bout of weight loss that resulted in her trimming 13 stone off her weight.
Her mum had type-2 diabetes. She had raised concerns over Alison’s pre-diabetic diagnosis. When she died in 2020, everything clicked. The motivation to shed the pounds was there.
“Mum said to me: ‘If you can, sort out your weight, Alison,’ and that really set it in my head,” Alison told Good Housekeeping last year.
“My mum had type-2 diabetes and she was worried for me, so when I then found out that I was pre-diabetic, that was frightening.”
She does not look down on anyone who goes the route of weight-loss jabs, but Alison Hammond has done it without.
“For people who need to use them, they’re a good thing. But for me, as soon as I hear any scare story, I get frightened. So I haven’t wanted to use them, but that’s not to say I wouldn’t in the future.”
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