A former Casualty star has transformed her image from frumpy receptionist to sexy slim woman after shedding 12 stone. Rebecca Wheatley, who played Amy Howard in the BBC medical drama, shrunk from a size 32 to a slender size 12 in just two years.
The redhead decided to fight the bulge when she hit 40 and weighed in at 24 stone. She said: "I've always been flying the flag for big women. I believed women who don't want to eat and drink there must be something wrong with them.
"I got to 40 years old and had got married to the father of my child. I came back from a lovely honeymoon and thought why I am not the most ecstatic person in the world?
"At 40 years old you suddenly go 'I'm tired'. I hadn't had any health problems. I'd got pregnant and had a child but then I suddenly said there was something I need to do."
Wheatley joined a slimming club but says she had to educate herself about food.
She said: "I joined a slimming club but the first thing is to be conscious about what you put in your mouth.
"People say well you must have been eating 16 burgers a day but that wasn't it. I skipped breakfast, had a packet of crisps when I wanted to.
"I wasn't eating six pieces of chocolate cake but if you put on a pound and a half a week that's six stone in a year. That's the way people really put on weight in the real world.
"People said did you comfort eat? I said yes but I actually I mostly ate because I liked it. Eating is nice."
The popular actress shed eight stone without doing any exercise but has since developed a passion for sport. She said: "I went to weekly meetings. At first I never wanted to go in and talk to anybody but eventually I said I need to do this in public.
"I can honestly say I lost eight stone without doing any exercise. I was adamant I wasn't going to do any but now I actually like exercise which people who know me will say is incredible. Before I would take a cab to the fridge. I was really bad for exercise."
Wheatley is now enjoying her healthier lifestyle and is considering auditioning for dancing roles, something she says she would never have been able to do before losing weight.
She said on TV show This Morning: "To me eating is about life. I love eating. I married a wonderful Turkish man who does nothing but cook. "He loves big women and he said to me when I met him if you were skinny I don't think I'd fancy you. But it's all change. We've been together for eight years and it's a whole new sensation.
"You can sort of breathe which sounds like a weird thing to say but you suddenly have a physicalness which I'd never had before."
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