Sue Cleaver has revealed she has ‘come out of hiding’ after revealing her incredible transformation, as she shared insight into her three stone weight loss to Lorraine on Wednesday.
The Coronation Street star, 60, showed off her slimmer body as a result of being ‘seriously ill’ last year and quitting alcohol.
Sue told Lorraine that after turning 60, she has decided that this decade ‘is for her’, and she wants to embrace ‘going out and having fun’.
She sad: ‘I feel very much on a journey. I raised my son and my priority was always my son. And then I thought: once he’s gone, it’s my time. This is my decade. So he’s gone, he’s 28 now. I love you Elliott, but don’t come back.’
‘So now I have decided: I have turned sixty, this decade is for me.
Sue Cleaver has revealed she has ‘come out of hiding’ after unveiling her three-stone transformation, as she shared insight into her transformation to Lorraine on Wednesday
The Coronation Street star (left in 2023 and right in 2006) shows off her slimmer body as a result of being ‘seriously ill’ last year and giving up alcohol
‘And I’m going to have fun. I’m going to do what I want to do and I’m going to emerge from hiding and just being a mom who was very much like, ‘This is my number one priority,’ and I just want to do things that are fun. It started with me going into the jungle.’
Sue is set to star in the touring stage production of Sister Act, and has taken a short break from Corrie to appear in the show.
When asked if she would return to the soap, she said: ‘I have a few months’ grace from Corrie to do this show and then I will get right back into it. I think George and Eileen should have a big Corrie wedding.’
Sue previously shared that after completing Dry January she decided to give up booze altogether.
She said: ‘I’ve lost 18 pounds (on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here). I had already lost a stone and a half that year because I had given up drinking. I did Dry January and then I decided to continue.
‘I know it sounds ridiculous at my age, but I never really thought about how many calories I was consuming if I drank a glass of red wine while cooking and then a few more while eating it.
“If you do that four or five nights a week, that’s a lot of calories.”
Last year, Sue admitted she had been drinking ‘too much red wine’ during the pandemic and had piled on the pounds, which inspired her to quit.
Sue told Lorraine that after turning 60 she has decided that this decade is ‘for her’, and she wants to embrace ‘going out and having fun’
Despite her Corrie character Eileen Grimshaw spending a lot of time in The Rovers, she admitted pubs are her ‘idea of hell’.
Speaking to Kaye Adams on her How to be 60 podcast, Sue said: ‘During the pandemic we’ve all been doing too many things. I spent a lot of it drinking a lot of delicious red wine and I gained a lot of weight doing it.
‘Then I did January dry and I thought. “I wonder what life would be like if I quit completely?”
The actress added her husband Brian Owen, shares different views and ‘love pub culture’.
“It was my idea of hell when I drank, and especially now that I don’t drink,” she said.
In January, Sue revealed she felt ‘ashamed and judged’ before losing three stone.
The soap star appeared as a guest panelist on Loose Women and revealed she was treated differently while being at different weights.
She explained: ‘My weight has gone up all over and most of it was helped by red wine.
‘At the moment I’m a lot thinner, but I’ve been ill this year and for some reason my metabolism seems to have changed and because I don’t drink. But I’ve been the other way and may be going the other way.”
Sue continued, “What I hate about it is the shame that comes with being bigger. The judgments that were made often came from other women.
‘I find it very difficult to accept. We are not stupid, we know we are big, we know we have a problem, we know we have an addiction, don’t treat us like we are idiots.
‘Other women are shocked by it. It’s so ingrained in us. Examples of this are when I’ve lost weight, I go into a room and someone says ‘oh my god, you look great, you’ve lost weight’. All I hear is ‘you looked like an absolute dog when you grew up’.
“It’s the way we talk about it that makes a big difference.”
Sue previously said: ‘I’ve lost 18 pounds (on I’m A Celebrity). I had already lost a stone and a half that year because I had given up drinking. I did Dry January and then I decided to continue (photo)
In January, Sue revealed she felt ‘ashamed and judged’ before losing three stone (pictured at the time of her speech in January 2024 left and in 2005 right)
Last year, Sue insisted she is ‘not obsessed with diets’ as she reflected on the unfair expectations placed on women while reporting on the March issue of Prima magazine.
She stated that she would never promote weight-related products because women “have enough problems as it is.”
Speaking about not being caught up in diet culture, Sue told the publication: ‘I lost some weight in the jungle, but I’m not obsessed with dieting – life is hard enough!
‘There will always be external pressure and unfair expectations for women, but I refuse to get caught up in that.
“That’s why I will never advertise anything related to weight, and that’s why I’d always rather compliment someone on their smile or their outfit than on their weight.”
She continued: ‘Let’s just let women be women – we have enough difficulties and struggles already.’
It comes after Sue warned her followers after diet companies used her image without consent while claiming she had lost weight using their gummies.
She warned her 148,000 Instagram followers about the scam and apologized to anyone who thought she was promoting it.
In the clip, she shared, “I’m really sad that I actually have to make this video. But I’ve had quite a few messages over the past few weeks asking about…keto dummies.
“There’s clearly a scam going around saying I lost weight with keto gummies. Dummies? Don’t know. Well, it’s c**p. It’s a scam. And if it caught you off guard, I’m so, so sorry.”
‘It’s outrageous. And I want you to know that I would never, ever advocate anything like that. I am absolutely outraged.
‘Yes, I lost some weight last year. I gave up drinking and went into the jungle. Yes, I lost weight this year. But not from any diet.’
Sue went on to reveal that she had ‘female health issues’ that contributed to the weight loss, concluding: ‘Life is too short to worry about dieting and finding quick fixes. Just be happy with yourself.’
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