Gemma Clare Collins (born 31 January 1981) is an English media personality and businesswoman. In 2011, she began appearing on the ITVBe reality series The Only Way Is Essex. Following a brief appearance on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2014), Collins has appeared in various television programmes including Celebrity Big Brother (2016), Celebs Go Dating (2018), and Dancing on Ice (2019). In 2019, she began starring in her own reality series and hosting a podcast on BBC Sounds.
She may be known for being the ultimate diva, but Gemma Collins has switched Harrods for healthy living, she tells in an exclusive interview this week. “I’ve gone from Gucci bags and living my best life down Bond Street to not giving a s**t - my health is my wealth now,” says Gemma as she talks us through her new lifestyle overhaul.
The former TOWIE star, 43, is on a health kick and has transformed her eating habits using a high-fibre diet, Fibre First. And when we sit down to chat about her weight loss - she has shed a stone in just a matter of weeks - she explains there is a deeper reason for wanting to drop weight.
Gemma, who is engaged to businessman Rami Hawash, 49, has been incredibly candid about her desire to become a mother and struggles with PCOS [polycystic ovaries syndrome] making this difficult.
She’s been on a fertility journey in recent months and now she admits that putting her health first goes hand in hand with her dreams of motherhood. “I don’t want to be an overweight mum,” she says. “Nothing against overweight mums at all, but I want to run and play with my kid.