Love Island’s Curtis Pritchard has admitted that he struggled with being fat shamed following his time in the villa. At the time, it was reported that the reality star gained two stone over eight weeks, with tabloids claiming that Curtis asked producers to buy him new clothes.
Speaking to OK! Magazine, the reality star revealed, ‘I’ve wanted to get a healthy lifestyle because my eating has been up and down all the time. I’ve been fat-shamed in the villa, and this and that.’
He added, ‘Obviously it's not very nice, it does affect you slightly, and that shouldn’t be happening in this day and age. It was sort of good for me… it means I can live that healthy lifestyle now.’
Curtis - who finished third on the series with his girlfriend Maura Higgins - also said that he believes men ‘cover up’ their body image struggles. ‘Men I would say do cover up issues about weight a lot more than women,’ he told the mag. ‘I would say it makes you feel emasculated basically, it just makes you feel small.’
‘Obviously, coming out of the villa I was fat-shamed by the papers,' Curtis recently told Metro.co.uk, 'Can I just say, in 2019, I think this is ridiculous.'
Curtis has now signed up to be the face of WW (the company formerly known as WeightWatchers).
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