Carol Vorderman, 63, admits she’s unhappy with her body and weight as her ‘bum has dropped’ – as she reveals her favourite snack is raw Brussels sprouts: ‘I generally carry a bag on me’

Carol Vorderman admitted that she is unhappy with her body and weight because her ‘bottom has sunk in’. She also admitted that her favourite snack is raw sprouts.

The 63-year-old former Countdown star is known for her stunning looks and fit figure.

Speaking with Saga magazine However, Carol admitted she’s not feeling great about her body at the moment as her ‘bottom has sunk in’ – while she struggles to find time to get to the gym.

But despite her lack of body confidence, when asked how she stays looking so good, Carol revealed a rather obscure secret: eating raw Brussels sprouts.

“I usually carry a bag with me,” she added.

Speaking to Saga Magazine, Carol admitted that she feels best about her body at the moment because her ‘bottom has sunk in’ – after struggling to find time to get to the gym

Carol opened up about her body image, saying, “I’m not happy with my body right now. My bum has dropped. I’m at the upper end of my weight range.

‘I haven’t been to the gym in months because of the book and also because I have problems with my knee.’

Explaining her injury, she added: ‘Basically the oil around the joints went away, so I had two injections of hyaluronic acid. The first one didn’t work, but the second one did.’

On how she stays in shape, she said: “I wear a good bra and jeans that hold you up. I generally eat one meal a day – late afternoon – and I do three 45-minute sessions at the gym a week, which I love. Lots of squats for the bum.”

Although Carol is currently unhappy with her body, she insists she “doesn’t give a damn” what people say about her appearance. She shared the secret behind her age-defying figure.

Regarding other people’s opinions about her appearance, she said: ‘I don’t give a damn what people say about my appearance’.

‘I’m also old enough not to worry about what other people think of me’.

Intermittent fasting is a type of time-restricted diet in which fasters leave a long period of time between their last meal of one day and the first of the next day.

But despite the dip in her confidence, when asked how she stays looking as good as she does, Carol revealed her rather obscure secret: eating raw Brussels sprouts.

The former Countdown star is no stranger to showing off her stunning figure in sexy outfits and says it’s all down to a ‘good bra and sprouts’

Research shows that intermittent fasting is a way to manage weight and improve overall health.

Carol previously shared that she is a big proponent of detoxing twice a year. It reduces inflammation, purifies your blood, stimulates circulation and helps with weight loss.

Carol wrote in her book Detox Your Life that she never counts calories and that she goes on a detox twice a year.

She wrote: ‘The detox is not about counting calories or fat units, it is about being aware of the types of food we put into our bodies. It is about eating more, not less.’

She recently revealed that she hasn’t weighed herself in 24 years and shared the secret to her incredible figure.

Carol said she went on a 28-day detox diet in 1999 after “gaining some weight” and admitted she hasn’t stepped on the scale since.

She said she doesn’t let doctors tell her what she weighs when she goes for a medical checkup, and she also admitted her views on her diet: she doesn’t cook at home.

Speaking of the Table manners podcast, Carol explained: ‘Go back to when I was in my thirties and my husband Paddy, who I loved and adored, we were into pasta and things like that, but I worked really hard and I got to the point where I was just eating to stay alive and stay awake.

Carol explained that she fasts intermittently and carries the raw vegetables in her purse to snack on throughout the day.

‘And I gained some weight and I didn’t like it. So I started this detox diet. It was criticized by nutritionists at the time because it was a 28-day detox diet. No meat, no wheat, no dairy, no sugar, for 28 days.

“Back then it was all ‘no you can’t do that’. Now it’s standard. This was 28 days to give all your organs a way to detox naturally.

‘(I was) super high on vegetables, not potatoes. I don’t buy regular potatoes anymore because of the detox – everything I bought has changed.

‘After the detox diet, I haven’t weighed myself since 1999 – I don’t know what I weigh. I don’t let anyone tell me what I weigh – you know when you go to the doctor. And generally, I eat pretty well at home.

‘But if someone has bought me chocolate or something like that, I eat it first before I go to the vegetables, so that I don’t have it in the house.

“I’m very happy. That’s all I’ve experienced in 20 years.”