Former Steps Singer Claire Richards flaunts her slender figure after incredible weight loss, Mum-of-two Richards dropped over six stone last year

Claire Richards has taken the media by storm after she showed off her new size 10 frame during ITV’s Loose Women. Richards who had been battling with her plus size weight surprised everyone by loosing almost 6 stones which is exactly 84 pounds. Former Steps Singer flaunted her slender envious figure after her incredible weight loss as she made an entrance at a beauty launch in London on Thursday night.

She wore extremely fabulous fitting teal lace dress in which she looks absolutely stunning as it showed off her sleek and stylish figure. The mother of two looked drop dead gorgeous in her new bob shape hair-cut as she was beaming with excitement as she presented her whole new look to the media.

Richards has a history of diet struggle as she had hard time shedding her over-sized weight.

She told Reveal magazine: 'I hope I've broken the cycle, but I think I've learned my lesson by saying, "This time it's for good."

'There is always a possibility that I could be a size 16 again in a year's time. I'm just taking each day as it comes.

Richards is an English singer-songwriter and dancer best known for being the lead singer in the pop group Steps. Richards left the band and late it spiltted in 2001. She has had a great solo singing career as well. She has appeared in various reality TV shows like Popstar to Operastar, Celebrity Big Brother. She is also a regular panelist in a TV show called Loose Women.

This famous reality TV star and singer has battled with her weight for years in a quest to gain a perfect body. Now that she has got her dream figure she says that she is happier than ever after managing to shed an incredible five stone. She also revealed that it took her two years to drop the extra pounds. She is very much open about her yo-yo dieting but said that she had to drop it because she wanted to conceive. She has two children with husband Reece Hill, told Closer magazine: 'The reason I'm this size is that I want another baby more than I want cake.'

Yo-yo dieting triggers weight loss but after the weight loss a person is unable to maintain the body eventually gaining weight. So reports say that Richards quit the yo-yo diet in order to get pregnant. She has openly revealed about the immense pressure she faced to stay slim in her famous book called “All of Me”. In the book, she explains her teenage music career to her big break with Steps. She reveals that while in the band she faced harsh pressure to stay thin, and starved herself for years. After the heartbreaking experience she felt depressed and gained huge amounts of weight and lost self-esteem. She has also written how she became hopeless after her separation with her first husband but later found love in her present partner Reece. Now they are happily married.

Now she has got a beautiful slim figure, she seems very confident. We hope that her new avatar will be the key for her already high net worth.

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