Peter Andre: ‘I was depressed after 5 years of fad diets - I can’t go shirtless’
ok.co.ukIf there’s any man you’d expect to feel body confident on the beach, it’s Peter Andre. But the singer and TV personality, who’s still famed for the ripped six-pack we first saw in the video for his mid-90s hit Mysterious Girl, tells OK!
that image of a “ripped 22-year-old” means he’s had a lot to live up to ever since. “Talk about building a rod for your own back,” he says.
Speaking candidly about his long-held body insecurities, the performer reveals that these days he would never take his shirt off in public and is still dealing with “psychological issues” after a single photo sent him spiralling into self-loathing.
A self-confessed yo-yo dieter, Pete says there was a time in his thirties when he “didn’t care about training”. As a result, he gained 3st from eating “pizza, Chinese, anything I could get my hands on, all day, every day”.
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