When Natalie Cassidy lost all that weight and became a skinny size 8, she became a symbol of hope for woman everywhere.
Here was a woman who had experienced a very public weight battle for most of her life, and now she had finally achieved her goal finally get down to her dream size.
What made it even more endearing was the fact that Nat wasn't your average celeb dieter, she simply decided that enough was enough and set about devising a gruelling regime to get into shape.
Nat has been off the celeb radar too, ever since she left behind her dowdy role of Sonia in Eastenders, so when she stepped back into the limelight a few years later, almost a completely different person, she created a media storm.
People raved about her new look and Nat too seemed happier than ever, with her fitness DVD becoming the biggest seller of the year.
However, it soon became clear that her new figure came with a heavy price, as Nat's gruelling fitness regime and diet was extreme to say the least.
Critics were already starting to wonder how Nat could sustain the weight loss, and how anyone who followed her regime would too. Cutting out virtually any treats and exercising up to three hours a day would be hard for anyone to stick too.
And they were proved right too, as slowly Nat started putting weight back on amidst rumours that she hadn't been offered the sort of acting roles she now expected to land.
Despite vowing to loose the weight again, by December her engagement announcement saw Nat creep back to her pre-diet weight and the media really started to lay in.
Women who had put their faith in Nat were now annoyed that she had fallen off the wagon, so to speak and they too abandoned her regime in droves, just in time for a new influx of celeb DVDs to hit the stores.
So was it too much weight loss too soon? She was dieting for a year before she managed to lose all that weight and tone up, but perhaps the extremeness of it all became too much to sustain on a daily basis.
Either way, Nat has now said she will lose the weight once more in time for her wedding later this year. If she does, we'll be watching to see if she keeps it off, or reverts back to her old ways. Only time will tell...
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