Laura is branching out into podcasts (Picture: Channel 4)
The Great British Bake Off star Laura Adlington has posted an Instagram picture in black floral lingerie, in an inspirational post hitting out at the diet industry.
The 33-year-old, who was a finalist on the 2020 series, captioned the empowering selfie with a poem that began: ‘Your body does not belong to them you know… the industries.’
The poem continued: ‘The ones who sell you last-minute diets, then watch in glee as you lose yourself amongst the treats, before calling you back as you descend into a spiral of guilt, to begin another year.’
As well as the post, Laura opened up about feeling ‘vulnerable’ on her Instagram stories.
‘I feel really vulnerable and a bit awkward sharing this, but I just love the poem in the caption and I think you will too,’ she wrote.
Elsewhere, she defended herself against one follower, saying that she is not ‘anti-health’ after receiving a comment about ‘needing to be healthy’.
Laura penned: ‘I just want to be clear on something, because comments like this make me wonder if I’m not explicit enough.
‘I am not, nor have I ever been, anti-health. I’m not telling you all to go and stuff your face Is with 20 pizzas a day. I think we should all strive for health.’
She continued: ‘What I am is anti-diet and anti diet-culture (note, not anti-dietER).
Laura admitted feeling ‘vulnerable’ (Picture: Instagram)
She replied to one comment about being ‘anti-health’ (Picture: Instagram)
‘All I want is for you to know that you deserve to live a full and happy life just as you are.
‘I wasted so many years thinking I was a useless sack of s**t because of my size. I wish I had focused MORE on my health and less on what I looked like. I wish I didn’t ease my life trying to do fad diets that messed with my head and led to even more weight gain.
‘It took me a long time to realise diets don’t work, and that you don’t need to look like a Victoria Secret model in order to be respected and loved.
‘I post the content I do in the hope you learn the same. Does that make sense?’
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Laura’s inspirational post comes after she was told to lose 14 stone in order to have a baby, and has now made the decision to not have children.
She said: ‘My husband Matt and I were really struggling with infertility.
‘It got to the point when all our friends and family were starting to have babies and that was very upsetting.
‘I was really happy for them, but it was just a reminder of what I couldn’t have.’
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She added: ‘It was difficult — people say we obviously didn’t want it enough because I would have lost the weight to have the IVF.
‘But it was such a lot to lose — about 14st and I just struggled to do that.’
The Great British Bake Off is available to watch on All 4.
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