Robbie Williams, 51, shows off his buff physique in shirtless ‘thirst trap’ shared by adoring wife Ayda Field after detailing his body dysmorphia battle

Robbie Williams flaunted his chiselled physique in a sizzling shirtless snap on the beach, shared by his wife Ayda Fields on Monday.

The singer, 51, who was once cruelly dubbed ‘Blobby Williams’, whipped off his shirt to display his slimmed-down frame and array of tattoos as he posed in his swimming trunks.

While his wife, 46, proudly voiced her appreciation for her man’s buff body, posting the photo to her Instagram with the caption: ‘@robbiewilliams #thirsttrap AW xx’.

The shot saw Robbie smiling to himself as he looked off into the distance, hiding behind a baseball cap and oversized shades.

He has shed two stone in recent years with the help of weight loss jabs, after years of battling with body dysmorphia – a mental health condition where a person obsessively worries about flaws in their physical appearance.

The former Take That has confessed to having ‘addictive nature’ and struggling with his sugar intake and eating healthy foods, previously poking fun at his diet with his 2013 track, No One Likes A Fat Pop Star.

He’s been open about his ongoing struggles with feelings of self-hatred, previously sharing a lengthy and candid Instagram post where he penned: ‘I could write a book about self-loathing where my body image is concerned.

‘Like pure self-hatred, the ugliness of feeling ugly. I’m body dysmorphic and on top of being dysmorphic at times, I can be 40+ pounds overweight.

‘So you can imagine what my mind sees. Or maybe you can’t either way it’s a f*****g disaster. At the moment I’m skinny… But me being me, my mind is going, ‘F*****g great Rob, you managed to get skinny and now your old, congrats, golf clap.’

‘The struggle is real, the sadness shocking. I’ve had it all my life. And it won’t abate.’

The pop star has said that he gained vast amounts of weight after leaving Take That in 1995 and falling down a slippery slope, which saw him frequently getting high and eating unhealthy food. 

Speaking on his At Home with Williamses podcast, he recalled: ‘I rented a flat. I went to the supermarket on my first shop. Once. Stoned. Don’t go to a supermarket stoned. You make bad choices.

‘I opened the fridge and there was this whole Mr Kipling cake. And I can remember this moment going, ‘Hang on, I don’t live with my mum. I can eat all that cake.’

He explained that his newfound freedom caused him to pile on the pounds in the following months, saying: ‘That was January. By February I was morbidly obese. 

‘I looked like a farm animal as it was quoted in the press in 1996. Mr Kipling is a b*****d.’

Robbie has credited his recent two stone weight loss to ‘something like Ozempic’, sharing in a 2023 interview that he’d gone from 13st 13lb to 12st 1lb while using an appetite suppressant. 

He joked that he requires the drug because he has been diagnosed ‘with type 2 self-loathing’ and candidly explained that being overweight is ‘shockingly catastrophic’ for his mental health. 

He told The Times: ‘Babe, I’m on Ozempic…Well, something like Ozempic. It’s like a Christmas miracle. I’ve gone from 13st 13lb to 12st 1lb. And I need it, medically. I’ve been diagnosed with type 2 self-loathing.

‘It’s shockingly catastrophic to my mental health to be bigger. My inner voice talks to me like Katie Hopkins talks about fat people. It’s maddening.’

However, he’s said that taking weight-loss jabs has eased his long-standing mental health struggles, saying the relief from ‘constant mental anguish’ has been transformative. 

The father-of-four has overhauled his lifestyle too, incorporating daily workouts, stretching routines and strength training into his schedule.

But he has also been candid about the physical side effects he’s suffered from taking the appetite-suppressant drug.

Earlier this year, Robbie revealed he became undernourished and lacking in vitamin C after he stopped eating entirely and ended up being diagnosed with scurvy, which he dubbed: ‘A 17th-century pirate disease.’

He added that his decades-long battle with body dysmorphia meant he misconstrued concerned comments from loved ones about how much weight he was losing.

Speaking to The Mirror in April, he said: ‘With body dysmorphia, when people say they’re worried about how you’re looking, you’re like: ‘I’ve achieved it.’ 

When people say, ‘We’re worried you’re too thin,’ that goes into my head as ‘Jackpot. I’ve reached the promised land’.

While last month, he revealed his fear the weight loss jabs were ‘making him blind’ after noticing his vision rapidly deteriorating, but admitted he’d keep on taking them until he’d lost sight in one eye completely.

Confirming he was on Mounjaro, Robbie explained that his eyesight had become increasingly blurry, preventing him from seeing people’s faces during emotional moments in his live shows.

The pop star explained he first noticed something was wrong when he attended an American football game and couldn’t make out individual players, describing them as ‘just shapes on the field’. 

He visited an optician to get a new prescription and ‘had to buy a whole new load of glasses’, but didn’t initially connect the issue to the jabs.

However, the hitmaker said he was now convinced the medication was to blame, but that it wasn’t enough to deter him from taking it due to his body issues.

‘Of course it’s worrying and by being honest today, obviously I want to warn people reading this of the potential risks, to make sure they do their research,’ Robbie told The Sun.

‘But seriously, I’m that sick I’d probably stay on it until the sight in one eye has completely gone.’ 

He went on: ‘I did this meet ‘n’ greet yesterday, and someone told me to watch out because their friend had gone blind from the jab.

‘So obviously I just said, ‘But does she look good?’ And it kind of killed the vibe.’