Davina McCall has defended herself from body-shamers who have dubbed her "too skinny" on social media.
The 51-year-old – whose 15th fitness DVD, Davina: Power Box & Tone, was released in December – revealed that the negative comments she sometimes receives about her body do bother her.
"I want to promote health and fitness and that's why I get slightly irked with people going, 'I'm too skinny' because I am really healthy," she told Metro.
The mum-of-three continued: "I mean, I go to the doctors once a year for a little MOT and every year they go, 'Bloody hell, you're amazing'.
"And, in fact, I've probably got healthier. Like my cholesterol is better, my blood pressure's amazing, my BMI is perfect, I'm within the normal range, I'm not at the bottom of the range for all those naysayers.
"So that bugs me because I'm a very healthy person."
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Davina went on to confess that she does sometimes feel tempted to hit back at trolls, but always resists the urge.
"I want to reply and I can't reply because it's just going to start a whole thing," she said.
"But when someone goes, 'You're like this', part of me wants to look at their profile picture and go, 'Well, you're bla bla bla' but I don't, because that's ridiculous."
Speaking about body-shaming in general, Davina continued: "I'm hoping that it's not going to [stick around] because I feel like this whole body shaming is a new thing and I'm hoping that it will go like it's come; it will just sort of peter out and get boring because actually there's enough shaming going on in the world, we just don't need to do that to each other.
"Everybody just needs to look after themselves and stop judging other people."
Wise words, Davina!
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Francesca Rice is the Multiplatform Editor of Red, leading on all things digital for the brand. She oversees every section of the site, from Fashion to Wellbeing, and directs Red's digital content strategy across all platforms, including newsletter, social media and video. Francesca has worked as a journalist on the UK's top lifestyle and luxury titles since 2013. She joined Red as Digital Editor in 2021, having previously held senior editorial roles at Hearst UK as Good Housekeeping's Deputy Digital Editor and Prima's Senior Digital Writer. Prior to this, she worked as a News & Features Writer for SheerLuxe, after beginning her journalism career as the Features Assistant at Marie Claire. Francesca has a postgraduate diploma in Multimedia Magazine Journalism from the Press Association and a degree in English Literature from Durham University. Having attended an international school, she is fluent in French and Italian (and occasionally Spanish after a few glasses of rosé). She loves travel, books and pizza so a relaxing holiday in Italy is pretty much her dream scenario.
