Chanelle Hayes flaunts 10-stone weight loss in yellow bikini in Tenerife.

Chanelle Hayes displayed her jaw-dropping figure in a bright yellow bikini as she boarded a boat in Tenerife. 

At the height of her fame in 2009, the Big Brother star, 37, weighed 8.5 stone, barely ate and took laxatives to try and achieve a ‘WAG body’. 

Fast-forward to 2020 and she had a secret gastric sleeve operation after she reached 17 stone. She lost 10 stone and dropped from a size 18 down to an 8.

Showing off the results of her weight loss in the Canary Islands on Monday, Chanelle strolled along the pier in a skimpy yellow two-piece.   

Chantelle was spotted boarding a boat for a day on the water with pals during her sun soaked holiday. 

She sipped on a drink as she laughed and relaxed with her friends while on the boat, where she was seen wearing a pair of white sheer lace beach shorts over her bikini. 

Chantelle revealed last year that the operation was a ‘last resort’ and decided on surgery after years of being unhappy, opting to have the operation at Burcot Hall Hospital in Worcestershire.

She took to social media at the time to share some before and after photos of her weight loss, adding that her operation had ‘changed her life’ and she had ‘no regrets’.

Meanwhile Chanelle took to Instagram last month as she celebrated her new career change after qualifying as a nurse. 

The star shared a throwback snap of herself dressed up as nurse as a child alongside a photo of her recent graduation and her new uniform. 

She penned: ‘I’ve been posting a lot less recently. It’s not because I have nothing to say, I’ve been settling in to a new job role that I have wanted for many years but didn’t feel quite brave enough to do. 

‘Thankfully, my husband and parents were such rocks and provided unconditional love and support for me when I was struggling. 

‘My children have missed out on a few plans, we have limited our holidays to accommodate my studies. But they saw every single atom of the blood sweat and tears that I poured into my degree.

‘This taught my children that people can say cruel things about their mum, but she was resilient. 

‘They heard people tell me to quit to do something easier, witnessed me working HARD and achieving a first class honours. 

‘I carried so much guilt studying so hard when my kids needed me, but now I see that I taught them an important lesson. Whatever you strive for; work for it, stick at it, you will achieve it.’

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, the former model said the surgery, which she had in 2020, created a ‘physical barrier’ to prevent her from excessive consumption but she has been left ‘terrified’ after falling into old habits of eating too much chocolate or pizza, triggering the unpleasant condition.

‘Dumping syndrome’ is described as a medical disorder where food, particularly sugary food, moves too quickly from the stomach into the small intestine and causes bloating, nausea, cramps, dizziness and a rapid heartbeat among other symptoms including being physically sick. 

It is often caused by gastric surgery and sufferers are advised to manage it by eating smaller more frequent meals and upping their intake of protein and fibre while limiting sugary foods.

And for Chanelle the symptoms are even harder to bare because she has emetophobia, a phobia of vomit, which she says has ‘terrorised’ her for most of her life. 

The mother of three, who last year married husband Dan Bingham, told MailOnline that ahead of the couple’s nuptials she dropped to an ‘unhealthy’ seven stone due to stress but she’s now the happiest she has ever been with her body following years of battling against disordered eating. 

She said: ‘This physical barrier stops me from eating. I physically cannot, if I eat more than the capacity of my stomach I will vomit, if I eat things that are too bad for me then I could end up with dumping syndrome, diarrhoea, vomiting, sweats, it forces you to stay on the straight and narrow.

‘Don’t get me wrong, I will still reach for a chocolate bar or milkshake or a slice of pizza, but I’ll have more than what my stomach can fit in, and it does not end well. 

‘I have a huge phobia of vomit too, it’s awful, it terrorises me… I can handle all the other bodily fluids, I can handle all the others from any area but not vomit, it terrifies me.

‘The advice is to make sure you chew enough times whereas I can just ravage everything off the table, just shoving it in my mouth, so it’s being mindful and recognising not to be on my phone while I’m eating or watching TV, just concentrate on what you’re doing.’