JENNIFER Ellison has opened up about her diet after admitting to struggling with her confidence.
The star has revealed that she has given up on dieting, despite losing three stone.
Jennifer, 40, who is best known for starring on Brookside, has detailed her battle with feeling confident and falling for Fad diets.
She explained to Closer Magazine: "I'm not the smallest I've ever been, but am at a happy weight where I feel OK getting into a bikini or a costume in the swimming pool.
"I'm in a happy and confident place. I am about 10¾st at the moment.
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"I don't feel I'm in that rat race anymore of having to look amazing. I've stopped trying to diet."
She went on to say: "When you do faddy diets they don't work, so I've given up. My weight has gone up and down so much over the years so I just try to eat healthily now.'
Jennifer also recalled her previous lack of confidence, stating: "My agent would phone me up, and the thought of going for an audition... I would refuse.
"I'd say 'I can't do it'. I had lost my confidence. I had literally given up on myself."
The mum-of-three appeared on Channel 4's Celebrity SAS which she branded as "terrifying and unbearable."
Talking of her SAS Who Dares Wins experience, she said: "I lost a stone since doing it.
"I've since lost more because it really gave me a kick up the backside, because the gym is daunting to me.
"I was scared of the gym but then after SAS, I said if I could do that, I could do anything."
