Girls Aloud rose to fame slap bang in the middle of one of the most dangerous body obsessions of recent times - size zero. Suddenly it wasn't enough to be fit and healthy - instead, protruding clavicles and hip bones were suddenly the look to aspire to.
Thankfully, those days are long gone but for a young Cheryl, Sarah Harding, Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts and Nadine Coyle - who parted ways eight years ago today - the pressure to look the part was immense.
So much so that Cheryl once told how she sobbed and sobbed because she weighed 9st 7lbs, which for her height meant she had a perfectly healthy BMI of 22.5. “In the first year of Girls Aloud, I went up to a 29in waist.
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