Vanessa Feltz's secret to dramatic weight loss exposed - and why she regrets it

Broadcaster has opened up about her gastric bypass surgery and confessed that despite the staggering weight loss, she regrets the procedure. The 63-year-old journalist went under the knife back in 2019 to remove her gastric band. The weight loss procedure, which was originally fitted in 2010, helped the blonde bombshell to lose three stone in weight.

Despite losing the weight, the mum-of-two has always battled with yo-yo dieting , and that battle has continued into her adulthood. Over the years, Vanessa has spoken openly about her struggles with dieting and using black market diet pills to shed the pounds.

One particularly painful moment the star still recalls was a negative experience she had doing photoshoots about 20 years ago when she was "probably a size 20". Despite informing her stylist of her sizes before the shoot, she recalled how the wardroom assistant "only got size 16 clothes that didn't fit me".

Speaking to , she said, "I also had a well-publicised gastric bypass in 2019, which I never tried to hide in any shape or form, but now regret.

"If I'd just hung in there for Ozempic or Mounjaro, I could have lost weight that way, without having an operation. So that was a shame."

Writing in her new autobiography, Vanessa Bares All: Frank, Funny and Fearless, the TV host detailed how she struggled with her gastric band. She admitted that she found it difficult to even eat an apple, and when the band slipped in 2018, she decided to get a gastric bypass.

Vanessa-who hosts an eponymous lunchtime talk show on Channel 5-has previously commented that the "punishment" for "the crime of being over size 16" is "nasty enough" when in a changing room alone. The doting mum added that it is made even worse when it is in front of stylists, make-up artists, and photographers.

She wrote in her column for the Daily Express last month: "Punishment for the 'crime' of being over size 16 is nasty enough on your own in a store changing room. In front of a stylist, make-up artist, and photographer, it's a humiliation that still brings a blush to your cheeks years later."

In her book, Vanessa said that by the time she was 20 years old, her mum was buying her diet pills from her hairdresser to try and curb her appetite.

She wrote: "The side effects were nightmarish. Revved up on speed, your heart races like an overture to a cardiac arrest. The thought of food makes you heave. Your breath reeks of nail-polish remover. Everything is hectic and hallucinatory."