Trending Now: A Place in the Sun’s Scarlette Douglas’ eating disoder triggered on I’m A Celebrity – Fans React

TV presenter Scarlette Douglas has opened up about her battles with body image and how the ITV show triggered her insecurities.

A Place in the Sun’s host Scarlette Douglas has opened up about her issues with body dysmorphia, which started when she was 16. Sharing her years of ongoing struggles, she revealed going on I’m a Celebrity actually triggered her eating disorder.

Scarlette appeared in the Australian jungle in 2022, alongside pop icon Boy George, Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver and former rugby player Mike Tindall. In an update on her health, the 38-year-old said she couldn’t wait to live off rice and beans in the jungle as it meant she could lose weight.

Opening up about her historic struggle with an eating disorder, she said: “It’s something that’s been drilled into me from all those years ago, I feel like I’m overweight. Even when I did [I’m A Celeb] I was like: I can’t believe I’m going on that show.

“OK, no make-up. Fine, I’ll get over that but being as big as I am, I cannot wait to get on there, eat rice and beans and lose a stone.”

The TV presenter first started battling issues with her body image when she attended a performing arts college at the age of 16, reports the Mirror. Shockingly she revealed the students at the college were weighed every month.

She explained: “We would get told if we’d put weight on, we were going to a nutritionist who would be putting us on a diet, we would be eating seeds, literally. That’s why I always have seeds now because I’m always picking.

“It was horrendous and you look back and you think, oh my gosh, how impressionable we are as young people to have those above us that we put in high regard telling us that we’re too fat or telling us X, Y, Z.”

Scarlette continued: “So I ended up getting an eating disorder and even to this day I still struggle with my weight. Coming from being a professional dancer, obviously I was toned and everything was great. Now, I feel like I’m a good stone, two stone overweight.”

While sharing she is currently a healthy weight, she is continually wishing she could be smaller and lighter. She said: “I’m a size 10, great. But I’d like to be a good real solid size 8 as opposed to a 10, maybe a 12. I’m about 10st 10Ibs now. If I could, I would like to be like 9st.”

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Before joining the presenting line-up on A Place in the Sun, Scarlette perfomed in a variety of West End shows such as Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors, and was also a backing singer on Thriller Live.

Scarlette left the holiday-home show back in 2022 and has since worked on property development show Worst House on the Street with her former professional footballer brother, Struart.

Sadly, Scarlette isn’t the only star who said going on the ITV show triggered their problems with food and body image.

Back in 2002, the Vamps guitarist James Brittain-McVey said his 2018 trip down under worsened his battle with anorexia.

He said: “I came out of that show 5/6kg lighter and when my wife saw me, she was shocked, almost scared by how ill I looked. However, I thought immediately I kind of looked good again.

The 31-year-old added: “I had a six-pack in a way that I hadn’t for 10 years, since the beginning of my issues with food and mental health. And I think without realising, I still had unanswered demons in my head about my body.”