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Gabrielle was branded one of the “fattest girls in pop” at the height of her success.
The 51-year-old singer wishes she’d been kinder to herself when she was younger because she used to say “awful things” to ease the pain of other people’s jibes and it’s taken her a long time to feel it is “OK to be” herself.
She told The Big Issue magazine: “When I entered the music industry I became really self-deprecating.
“I once opened up a newspaper and it had an article about the five fattest girls in pop – I was one of them and so was Geri Halliwell, who’s teeny weeny weeny. No wonder people had eating disorders.