Gemma Clare Collins (born 31 January 1981) is an English television personality and businesswoman. In 2011, she began appearing on the ITVBe reality series The Only Way Is Essex, and following further appearances on television, she became a contestant on the seventeenth series of Celebrity Big Brother and the eleventh series of Dancing on Ice.
In August 2019, she began starring in her own reality series, Gemma Collins: Diva Forever.
Gemma Collins fans in tears as star opens up about self-harm battle as she admits cutting herself was ‘coping mechanism’
thesun.co.ukGEMMA Collins fans were left in tears this evening as the brave star opened up about her self-harm battle on Piers Morgan's Life Stories.
The 40-year-old star spoke frankly about her mental health struggle on the show, admitting that she can still see scars on her arms now.
Gemma explained that she started self-harming when she was 20 years old, and her long-term boyfriend left her for somebody else after she was forced to terminate a pregnancy because doctors said the baby was "deformed".
She told Piers: "I was desperately unhappy. It's shocking really, isn't it? I've still got scars on my wrist that I can see now. "That especially, I look at that now and I see it as a sign of how far I've come." Piers asked: "What would you do to.
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