Gemma Atkinson 'worried' for daughter Mia growing up in a world of botox and fillers
Actress Gemma Atkinson, who is mum to one-year-old daughter Mia, is concerned by the trends to stay looking good on social media
Gemma Atkinson is worried about the world her daughter will grow up in – filled with people having surgery or botox to look good.
The model, actress and radio host, who is mother to one-year-old daughter Mia, is concerned by the trends to stay looking good on social media.
She said: “One of my biggest fears for Mia growing up, especially in the environment we’re all in now, with the Instagrams and the filters and the quick fix, these jabs and pills and stuff. It terrifies me that she’ll come to me and say ‘Mum, I’ve read that if I do this injection it will make me thin’.”
The actress says she is very conscious of what she says and does in front of her one-year-old and even takes her to the gym.
She added: “She loves the gym already…she learned to walk in there to be honest…she does watch us train, and again it’s great, I’m very mindful, I love the fact that she’s growing up watching me in the gym.
" I don’t want her to grow up watching me moaning about what I’m eating or covering up a bit of cellulite or moaning about my weight and stuff.”
Gemma also told how she was trolled over her weight after classic episodes of Hollyoaks featuring her as a 15-year-old aired recently on television.
She starred as Lisa Hunter in the soap franchise between 2001 and 2006, said people messaged her on social media after her old scenes broadcast on Channel 4.
Gemma, 35, said one man had told her she had been “fat” during her time on the series.
Speaking to the Women’s Health podcast, she said: “For Hollyoaks turning 25 years old, they’ve been re-running some episodes, and they’ve had a week of my episodes, and people have actually DM’d me.
“A guy DM’d me, and he said: ‘Wow, I never realised at the time, but you were fat in Hollyoaks weren’t you?’
“I went back to him and I said: ‘Well, I was 15, so I was chubbier than what I am now, but please, please don’t let your daughter think that that’s your idea of fat. She will have problems for the rest of her life if that’s the case.”’
Gemma, who competed on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, also recalled putting on weight during her stint on the BBC One show.
She said: “I think I’m the only contestant who gained weight during Strictly and I always say that openly because the training is hard, it’s intense.
“But because I train differently anyway, my body kind of went backwards a bit and the main reason was because I let my diet slip massively on Strictly.
“We trained above the Cadbury’s shop, so I had a Toblerone nearly every day, fast food, anything that was just quick and easy really.
“I think I put on about six or seven pounds by the end of it.”
Atkinson and her partner, professional dancer Marquez met on the 2017 series of Strictly, when she was partnered with Aljaz Skorjanec and he was dancing with singer Alexandra Burke.
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