Love Island star unrecognisable before weight loss transformation as she reveals body image struggle

LOVE Island bombshell Claudia Fogarty has opened up about her lack of confidence and battle with her weight.

Claudia, 28, has lost almost three stone in recent years but admits she still sometimes struggles with her appearance when she looks in the mirror.

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InstagramThe reality star has lost nearly three stone in three years[/caption]

Speaking in a new podcast, the stunning reality star admitted: “I feel like I’ve never ever been a confident person.

“Everyone sees me as this funny, happy, bubbly ball of energy.

“I’ll never show how I’m actually feeling and sometimes I’m feeling very insecure.”

Claudia opened up to fellow Love Island alumni Scott Thomas for his podcast Learning As I Go.

The stunning blonde, who is the daughter of superbike champ Carl Fogarty, told Scott that she reached her heaviest weight following a relationship break-up three years ago.

Claudia revealed: “I looked in the mirror and thought, ‘What are you doing?’ I was a lot heavier and I didn’t feel good in myself. I just let myself go.

“People are always like, ‘I never knew you were bigger’. But in pictures I would always hide, I’d stand in the middle and had a way of being in a picture and editing them.

“I didn’t want people to see how big I actually was. It wasn’t until I took a picture with no clothes on and literally saw the raw picture of me, that I was like, ‘Oh my God’.”

Claudia said things “clicked” during a session with her personal trainer and she embarked on a lifestyle overhaul.

“I said, ‘I’m sick of feeling bloated and fat’. I’m not saying I was fat, because people will look at the pictures and that I’m not and I was just very curvy, but it was more for my health,” she explained.

“I started crying, she started crying and even my mum started crying.

“That day I started my own journey. It’s been three years now.”

The star, who was dumped from Love Island alongside Keanan Brand, lost almost three stone as a result of the changes she made.

She began walking more, hitting the gym and switching chocolate for fruit and nuts.

Claudia also said cutting back on booze helped, as she no longer found herself hungover and scoffing junk food.

But she admitted: “It’s hard for me just to be one weight. It’s constant but it’s a lifestyle change.

“It’s a hard thing and don’t think I’ll ever come to terms with it. It’s a battle.”

Claudia sent pulses racing when she entered the South African villa during the infamous Heart Rate Challenge.

The blonde bombshell strutted into the garden dressed in sexy red lingerie and giant Victoria’s Secret style wings.

Despite her sizzling appearance, though, Claudia admitted she was terrified and had previously insisted she did not enter the ITV2 show that way.

“The one thing I did not want to do was walk in on that challenge,” she told Scott.

“I said it to my mum before I went. I was like, ‘Please, I hope they don’t do this to me’.

“They surprised me with Ann Summers lingerie and wings. I was like, ‘Are you actually having a laugh?’

“Asked me a few years ago and I never in a million years would have done something like that.”

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RexThe bombshell was terrified to enter the villa in red underwear and wings[/caption]