Angela Scanlon, who is on Saturday Kitchen today (June 28), previously opened up about her 15-year battle with an eating disorder.
The Irish star, who competed on Strictly in 2023, also revealed the true impact of some of the comments trolls would make about her online.
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Angela Scanlon on eating disorder battle
In an interview with OK! earlier this month, Angela Scanlon opened up about feeling “judged” over her eating disorder.
The 41-year-old presenter revealed in the interview that having children – daughters Ruby, seven, and Marnie, three – has changed the way she views her body.
Having children changed how I viewed my body.
“Before I had kids, my approach was very much that my body was to be preened, presented and punished. It was almost somewhat separate from me. But I think having children changed how I viewed my body and I became more compassionate, more appreciative, and more in awe of what it does every single day. I became more gentle in my approach – my body was to be cared for and appreciated rather than punished or insulted,” she explained.
Angela on her relationship with her body image
The star continued: “There’s still a sense of policing what women do, how they look, how they should present, what they should wear. It’s bonkers. I think there’s a real desire to kind of push back on that. Now I have two daughters, I want to push back on that more.”
She then said that she doesn’t want her daughters to be “complicit, well-behaved little girls” who do as they’re told because that’s what they’ve been told to do. She wants them to “preserve” the fire in them.
Trolls’ comments ‘sting’
The Strictly star also opened up about the impact that trolling has on her.
“There is the odd time that [trolling] will sting. But the vast majority of the time it’s some [bleep] in his boxers in his mother’s spare room commenting, so I don’t let it get to me too much,” she said.
However, Angela did confess that she does “often” respond. She explained that people usually send her “pretty hardcore ‘feedback'”. And added that it can be quite “cutting”. However, she revealed that once she’s responded to them, she’ll block them for the sake of her own mental health.
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Catch Angela on Saturday Kitchen today (June 28) at 10am on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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