Kelly Brook’s got my I’m A Celeb vote for sticking two fingers up at bullies… abuse she’s taken for curvy figure is vile

I WILL never forget going for a routine health check, the doctor measuring my waist and telling me in no uncertain terms that it was too big, not healthy and should be smaller.

He didn’t mince his words and made it very clear that my middle was too fat.

The abuse Kelly Brook has endured over her curvy, sexy and very normal fuller figure is vileCredit: Shutterstock Editorial

I was mortified, even though, looking back, I was wearing Topshop size 12 skinny jeans, so it was clearly a tad unjust.

I still remember those stinging comments because when it comes to criticism of your weight, or waistline, women have long memories.

Years on, you’d like to think we are a lot more sensitive to each other.
In an era of body positivity, we have learned to be kinder when discussing matters of the flab.

But I actually think that with the invention of fat jabs, we have become crueller.

Kelly Brook is ­evidence of that.

The abuse she has endured over her curvy, sexy and very normal fuller figure as she prepares for I’m A Celebrity has been vile.

Idiot trolls claim she’s only going into the jungle to shed weight and say she must have booked extra seats on the plane when she flew Down Under.

How ridiculous.

Sadly this is nothing new for the pin-up, though.

Kelly says she’s received abuse for years because, as she puts it, she no longer resembles a poster girl “in her twenties”.

Five years ago, she said cruel trolls see her “as this 40-year-old fat girl . . . but people grow up, people get bigger, people change — it ­happens”.

Yes we do. It’s a fact of life and we should all be able to embrace how we change over the years. Time waits for no man — or woman.

And expecting people, especially celebrities, to be often unhealthily stick-thin as they age is unrealistic and, frankly, madness.

Before heading to Australia, Kelly even revealed that a doctor had offered her skinny jabs, telling her “everyone’s on it”.

Thank God she was sensible enough to tell him to get lost.

This is a woman who simply uses SlimFast to drop a few pounds if she gains weight and “absolutely loves” her body.

Kelly says: “My body has got me through so many things and I just love my curves.

“My husband loves my curves, I just think it’s unfortunate that women feel the need to change who they are.”

It is sad, too. But often women don’t have tough rhino skin.

Kelly says she was offered weight loss jabs and she refused, because she loves her body as it isCredit: Instagram

Most of us couldn’t cope with a fraction of the criticism confident Kelly has put up with.

The growing number of women with eating disorders in this country shows that.

More than 1.25million are now in the grip of bulimia or anorexia, and thousands of young women are in hospitals being fed by tubes because they can no longer see what a normal body type is.

Kelly has a normal body. She is a 12, the same size I was when I was told my waistline was unhealthy.

Yes, she may not be the same size she was decades ago when she paraded in that pink Julien Macdonald dress with her side boob and knickers on display but she is still two sizes smaller than the national average of 16.

We need to remember that skinny is often an unnatural shape for a woman in her 40s.

Most don’t want to take jabs, or have the willpower to eat the same calorie-controlled meal every day to look like Victoria Beckham.

I can’t think of anything worse than living off a raw vegan diet to be as slim as Demi Moore.

It isn’t just Kelly Brook’s “body positivity” that makes her so refreshing but her common sense, too.

I hope mums and dads across the country tune into I’m A Celebrity tonight and watch her with their teenagers as she confidently parades around the camp in the bikinis she has promised to wear.

Kelly gets my vote before she has even set foot under the waterfall shower.

She gets it for sticking two fingers up at everyone who tried to bully her.

She gets it for being a role model and the kind of woman that young girls around this country should be looking up to.

Little Brit of hope

Britney Spears’ erratic social media posts offer an insight into her chaotic lifeCredit: instagram

YOU only need a tiny glimpse of Britney Spears’ social media to see that she is a ticking time bomb, who really just needs someone to give her a hug and look after her.

Her make-up is often smudged, her dance routines are like erratic lap dances and her rambles in foreign accents often incoherent.

She uploads so often that when she disappeared from Instagram for a few days this week, there was panic among her fans who were worried – because it came after her ex Kevin Federline released his new memoir.

But now, apparently because of the book, Britney has reconnected with her sons, who cut off contact with her over the “shocking things” they witnessed at her home.

Let’s hope it’s a happy reunion. I dread to think what will happen to Britney if it isn’t.

WE all need to make a living, don’t we? So I get why ousted MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace is doing what he can to pay the bills.

He has turned agony uncle and is dishing out advice on online website Cameo.

He provides personalised messages, and it makes sense that fans would still go to him for food and drink advice.

But who in their right mind would pay the £38 fee for Gregg to tell them in a video how to handle their love life or marriage problems?

He might have had more luck down the OnlyFans route.

I AM not popular with HGV drivers.

It’s since my comments about them flashing their headlights at each other on the motorway, leaving car drivers like me, who weren’t au fait with their habits, believing they are, for some reason, flashing them.

I’ve been told, in no uncertain terms, that I should leave them alone because they get lonely on the motorways and need to do this for moral support.

I get that, and I don’t want to get into any vehicle war. They are, after all, bigger than me.

But I hope that by raising this matter, more car drivers now know why they’re flashing, and more lorry drivers realise it’s not great to dazzle the driver in front of them.

That’s my last word on the matter!

Kim’s a law unto herself

Kim Kardashian says she was told by psychics that she would pass her bar examCredit: Getty

MAJOR insight from Kim Kardashian, who truly thought she would pass her bar exam.

Not because she worked hard, did the revision or prepared herself fully to qualify as a lawyer.

No, because she was told she would by psychics so presumed it was a done deal.

So when she failed her exam it wasn’t her fault, obviously, but that of the psychics.

Kim ranted that they are “all f***ing full of s**t . . . pathological liars – don’t believe anything they say.”

Who’d have thought it, eh?

Cantona is no cake walk

Eric Cantona’s frosty reaction when Jane presented him with a birthday cake is one she still remembersCredit: Getty

ERIC CANTONA is once again back in the spotlight because of his one-man stage show.

And he’s been accused of being a bit arrogant. Which reminded me of the time I met Eric. It wasn’t pleasant.

I was sent, as a junior reporter in Manchester, to deliver him a birthday cake from The Sun.

It was the biggest cake you’ve ever seen, took two people to carry, and in red icing said: “Oooh, aah, 30 aah, Happy Birthday Cantona.”

Eric took one look at it, rolled his eyes, tutted in my face and told me to get lost.

Thankfully I got a much warmer welcome from the residents of the local old people’s home who were thrilled with the cast-off.

Eric turns 60 next year. I won’t make the same mistake again.

Cheesy does it

YOU’VE got to love the annual battle of the Christmas adverts.

I am usually a sucker for the John Lewis one, but Waitrose is the 2025 winner for me.

Keira Knightley playing herself and drooling over scruffy, bearded, Celebrity Traitors star and comedian Joe Wilkinson.

The pair fall for each other at a cheese counter.

What it shows is that to find love, actually it’s all about chemistry . . . and obviously a shared adoration for the smelly stuff.

Parcel pirates plague

IT is so infuriating to go outside and see the online shopping you ordered dumped on the doorstep, without a care for its security.

I’ve lost count of the times it’s happened to me, and the delivery person hasn’t even had the good grace to ring my doorbell to tell me they’re delivering a parcel before scarpering as fast as they can.

Now, new research shows that in the past year, FIVE MILLION households have had parcels stolen by so-called “porch pirates”.

More than £600million of packages were snatched in the thefts and, with Black Friday coming up, experts are warning shoppers to beware.

We are living in a time when shoplifters are blatantly nabbing coffee in front of security guards and customers in packed-out Co-Op supermarkets for fun.

And, thanks to bad delivery drivers, porch pirating is a much easier route, well away from prying eyes, for a heartless criminal.

Maybe we should all do the sensible thing and physically go shopping again to stop this vicious circle.