Former reality TV star looks unrecognisable as she posts a throwback photo of herself with bright blonde locks

A former reality TV star looked unrecognizable as she posted a throwback photo of herself with bright blonde locks.

Now a brunette, Vicky Pattison, 35, looks very different from her former self in the photo she shared on Instagram Stories 15 years ago Thursday.

Vicky, then 19, is pictured sitting around her table with friends in the snap, obtained via photo aggregator app Timehop.

The Geordie Shore alumna captioned the post: ‘Proper throwback…’

’15 years ago. That meant I was a child. Not now no. I was an adult. A nonsense, an immature… but an adult nonetheless. WTF’

Before: Fresh-faced Vicky, 19, on a night out with three friends, (left) After: Vicky pictured on Good Morning Britain on Thursday

Vicky then tagged all three friends present in the photo: Stephanie, Laura and Natalie.

Just five years after it was shot, Vicky shot to fame on the first series of Geordie Shore in 2011, and stayed until 2014.

She went on to win I’m A Celebrity… and presented her own show Judge Geordie in 2015 before becoming a regular Loose Woman until 2019.

That same year, she found love with Ercan Ramadan, 29, a builder, and the couple got engaged in 2022.

Earlier this year she appeared in Pilgrimage, a television series in which celebrities from different faiths go on a hike together as a group.

Vicky’s group traveled to Fatima Way in Portugal, where the Virgin Mary was reportedly seen several times in 1917.

Speaking about her experience, Vicky said: ‘The trip affected me in a profound way that I didn’t expect. I cried (during filming) because I felt like I was missing something that I could really believe in.”

Earlier on Thursday, Vicky opened up about her struggle with PMDD, a severe form of PMS, and revealed that it caused her to have suicidal thoughts.

Vicky was diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder earlier this year and revealed the condition caused her to suffer a ‘constant cycle’ of despair at certain times of the month.

Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, she said: ‘Honestly, the best way I’ve ever heard it described is that PMDD is like building a sandcastle of good habits, good relationships, positive habits, going for a run in the morning, drink green juice and give birth to an avocado, whatever it is.

“And then every month comes a wave that takes all those things away and leaves only hopelessness and despair.

“It’s this constant cycle. It was despair, hopelessness, overwhelm, chronic fatigue, crippling fear and – in some dark moments – suicidal thoughts.”

Engaged: Vicky met Ercan Ramadan, 29, a builder, in 2019 and the couple got engaged in 2022