'I'M A TIGER'

Posted Sunday, May 16, 2010 by NOTW.co.uk

"When Charley's been in bed with us all night and then Beau comes in at 5am, I look in the mirror at my face just pulling my eyes back and working out exactly what could be done. I've had no work yet, but I'm definitely not saying I never will. I'll do my research, but I think if you don't go crazy it can be done well. I'm in reasonable shape, but I think every single woman in the country would want to change something."

It was these body issues that prompted Louise to make the ITV1 show The Truth About Size Zero three years ago where she documented the effects of extreme dieting. It put a strain on her marriage and almost made her ill.

"When I did that show it did something to my head. I went from a size 8 to a 4 (US size zero) in just 30 days. I got down to 6st and I honestly thought I looked great. I had my skinny jeans hanging off me. Jamie was telling me I looked terrible, but I didn't care because I was really thin.

"When I look back at the images I see I looked terrible: gaunt, grey and miserable. But the point of the programme was to see what damage losing that much weight does to your head. We all get sucked in and I wanted to explore that."

Thankfully her body is back to its best and Louise can currently be seen gracing ad posters in her smalls as part of Triumph underwear's ad campaign. In truth, Louise is everywhere at the moment. As well as staring back from billboards, she is co-hosting BBC2's hangover TV show, Something For The Weekend, with Tim Lovejoy. It's remarkable to think how she has reinvented herself from her pop-star days. Louise is of course the original WAG. She was in Eternal - one of the first UK girlbands to achieve worldwide success - when Robbie Williams first introduced her to Jamie backstage at a Take That tour in 1993. He proposed four years later and they married in June 1998.

By that point, Louise was successful in her own right as a solo artist after leaving Eternal in 1995 at the height of the group's success. It was a gamble that paid off - she has three albums and nine top 10 singles under her belt. Her music career went off the boil in 2003, and she could have been forgiven for turning her back on fame and putting her feet up. Jamie has told her she doesn't need to work. But she enjoys it.

And in the last couple of years, Louise has rarely been off our TV screens. She's presented The Clothes Show and The Farmer Wants A Wife, as well as being a judge on BBC1's prime-time Saturday night entertainment programme So You Think You Can Dance.

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