{"id":288165,"date":"2011-03-03T16:18:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/03\/look-in-the-mirror-and-be-pleased-fern-britton-admits-she-is-just-accepting-how-good-she-looks-after-gastric-surgery\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T16:18:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:18:42","slug":"look-in-the-mirror-and-be-pleased-fern-britton-admits-she-is-just-accepting-how-good-she-looks-after-gastric-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/look-in-the-mirror-and-be-pleased-fern-britton-admits-she-is-just-accepting-how-good-she-looks-after-gastric-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Look in the mirror and be pleased&#8217;: Fern Britton admits she is just accepting how good she looks after gastric surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"114.744348762\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Georgina+Littlejohn\" rel=\"nofollow\">Georgina Littlejohn<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 3:27 PM on 3rd March 2011<\/p>\n<p>After admitting to having a gastric band fitted three years ago, she said how pleased she was with the results.<\/p>\n<p>But Fern Britton has admitted that she has only now got used to her slimmer and fitter figure and starting to accept that she looks good.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;I\u2019m just starting to get used to the fact that not only am I fitter<br \/>\nthan I\u2019ve ever been. But I also think, &#8220;Look at yourself in the mirror<br \/>\nand be pleased&#8221;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3cb19cbb23_468x546.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"546\" alt=\"Looking good: But the slimmer and fitter Fern Britton admitted it took her a while to get used to her new figure\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking good: But the slimmer and fitter Fern Britton admitted it took her a while to get used to her new figure<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speaking to Good Housekeeping magazine, the 53-year-old said she was only now accepting the fact that she looks good.<\/p>\n<p>The former This Morning presenter said: &#8216;I\u2019ve never been someone who\u2019s that concerned with outside appearances: I\u2019m much more concerned with what\u2019s on the inside. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My mum and sister are both fantastically stylish, and have always got their lipstick on, while I look like a bag lady when I\u2019m at home.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/baec257c885_468x588.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"588\" alt=\"Svelte: Fern said she feels fitter and can get on her exercise bike and cycle up to 100 miles a day\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Svelte: Fern said she feels fitter and can get on her exercise bike and cycle up to 100 miles a day<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Britton attracted criticism in 2008 when she admitted to having the operation, despite claiming that she had lost weight naturally though diet and exercise, but defended that she had kept the procedure secret.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/955fbdfa693_233x324.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"324\" alt=\"The full interview with Fern can be found in the April edition of Good Housekeeping magazine\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Fern can be found in the April edition of Good Housekeeping magazine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fern told this month&#8217;s issue of the magazine that it wasn&#8217;t about losing weight, but getting fit.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;I really like the fact that I can now get on my bike and cycle 85 or 100 miles in a day. But I\u2019m accepting that the flim-flam of being a bit slimmer is actually very nice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I wasn\u2019t unhappy when I was bigger &#8211; my depression came from other situations. It worries me when you see people who are so concerned about a wrinkle or a saggy boob &#8211; I\u2019ve got all of that! <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I said to my girls the other day, to test them, &#8220;Girls, shall I have a facelift?&#8221; And they said, &#8220;No!&#8221; And that\u2019s the right answer, because I really don\u2019t mind the wrinkles. I\u2019m almost 54, so why would I want to pretend that I\u2019m 34?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And the presenter said she doesn&#8217;t care about anyone who dares criticise or expresses their jealousy over her new figure.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;My friends couldn\u2019t give a monkey\u2019s. I don\u2019t have an address book full of famous names &#8211; they\u2019re just normal people. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I\u2019m astonished at some female writers who are so willing to stick the boot in to anybody. But I\u2019m an easy, soft target so they go for it. It used to bother me when I was younger, but not now.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"10\">\n<p>Out with the old, in with the new: Fern when she was at her heaviest in 2006 and in December last year when she showed off her slimmer figure as a contestant on the Christmas special of Strictly Come Dancing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3cb19cbb23_468x546-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1362591\/Look-mirror-pleased-Fern-Britton-admits-just-accepting-good-looks-gastric-surgery.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"'Look in the mirror and be pleased': Fern Britton admits she is just accepting how good she looks after gastric surgery\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Look in the mirror and be pleased&#8217;: Fern Britton admits she is just accepting how good she looks after gastric surgery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Georgina Littlejohn Last updated at 3:27 PM on 3rd March 2011 After admitting to having a gastric band fitted three years ago, she said how pleased she was with the results. But Fern Britton has admitted that she has only now got used to her slimmer and fitter figure and starting to accept that she looks good. She said: &#8216;I\u2019m just starting to get used to the fact that not only am I fitter than I\u2019ve ever been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Look in the mirror and be pleased&#039;: Fern Britton admits she is just accepting how good she looks after gastric surgery - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/look-in-the-mirror-and-be-pleased-fern-britton-admits-she-is-just-accepting-how-good-she-looks-after-gastric-surgery\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&#039;Look in the mirror and be pleased&#039;: Fern Britton admits she is just accepting how good she looks after gastric surgery - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Georgina Littlejohn Last updated at 3:27 PM on 3rd March 2011 After admitting to having a gastric band fitted three years ago, she said how pleased she was with the results. 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