Chloe Madeley reveals weightlifting ‘saved her life’ as she admits that ‘demons were coming back’ during her honeymoon with James Haskell because she wasn’t working out
Chloe Madeley has revealed that weightlifting ‘saved her life’.
The 32-year-old only came to her passion in her mid twenties when struggling to cope with anxiety and panic attacks, brought on partly by the fact she was raised in the public eye.
She instantly fell in love and told the Daily Telegraph that it ‘completely saved me’.
Candid: Chloe Madeley has revealed that weightlifting ‘saved her life’ when she struggled to cope with anxiety and panic attacks
‘F*** me, it saved my life. It forces you to be present. There was no space to worry about anything else. It gave me self-respect, self-worth, self-discipline, and it completely saved me.’
Chloe, who is married to former England rugby international James Haskell, said that she worried a lot about her image and thought people judged her based on her parents, legendary TV hosts Richard and Judy.
‘One of the downsides was that I developed in my 20s quite bad anxiety issues based on what other people thought of me. I became incredibly anxious, I started having panic attacks, my self-esteem was on the floor,’ she said.
She also revealed that Denise Welch told her on the 2011 edition of Dancing on Ice that she needed CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) after the stress of TV led to her first panic attack.
Pressure: Chloe said that she worried a lot about her image and thought people judged her based on her parents, legendary TV hosts Richard and Judy
Another professional told her that she should dive headlong into an extreme sport as a means to control her mental health, leading inadvertently to a slightly less extreme love that now manifests itself in a new book: Transform Your Body With Weights.
Weights have become so important to Chloe that, she says, her demons began to creep back even when she took a week off for her honeymoon in Fiji.
She was used to a strict four days a week in the gym and said: ‘By the last few days, I was acting a little bit weird, a bit insecure. I just started to notice that demons were coming back.’
In shape: Chloe, who is married to England rugby star James Haskell, said of weight lifting: ‘F*** me, it saved my life. It forces you to be present’
The 32-year-old’s husband James was recently the fourth person voted off I’m A Celebrity, after spending 16 days in the camp – far more time than Chloe is used to being apart from him having revealed in the same interview that they are rarely apart for more than 48 hours.
Insiders claimed to the Daily Star that the couple ‘locked themselves in a room’ for a sex marathon after James’ stint in the jungle – in which he insisted if he had to choose between food or sex he would choose the former.
James and Chloe have always been candid about their steamy sex life, so the lengthy stint away from one another was no doubt difficult.
Loved up: The 32-year-old’s husband James was recently the fourth person voted off I’m A Celebrity, after spending 16 days in the camp
Chloe previously told Fabulous Magazine: ‘I’m a really sexual person, and if I had a partner who didn’t want to have a very sexual relationship then that would be a problem for me. I’d struggle in terms of feeling satisfied and loved.
‘So thank God it is massive for James. One of the reasons we stuck together in the early days before we were totally committed was because we were very compatible.
‘Our sex life is continually changing as our relationship grows, so it stays interesting.
‘It’s so different this year to what it was last year, and last year it was different to the first year. We have sex every night. That’s normal for us.
Key: Weights have become so important to Chloe that, she says, her demons began to creep back even when she took a week off for her honeymoon in Fiji with husband James (pictured)
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