Kym Marsh has seemingly hit back at a viral ‘fat-shaming’ clip from her Hear’Say heyday as she flashed her abs in a mirror selfie on Instagram on Tuesday.
In the resurfaced 2002 clip, the singer, 49, was seen being ordered to ‘lose weight’ by judge Nigel Lythgoe – who earned the nickname ‘Nasty Nigel’ for his scathing behaviour on pioneering ITV talent show Popstars.
Now, taking to social media, Kym showed off her sizzling figure as she posed for a new selfie.
The star turned heads as she flaunted her toned physique in a black sports bra and leggings.
‘Building a better me,’ she penned on top of the snap.
It comes after her former bandmate Myleene Klass, 47, took to Instagram to lash out at comments made by judge Nigel on the ITV show.
Kym Marsh has seemingly hit back at a viral ‘fat-shaming’ clip from her Hear’Say heyday as she flashed her abs in a mirror selfie on Instagram on Tuesday
In the resurfaced 2002 clip, the singer, 49, was seen being ordered to ‘ lose weight ‘ by judge Nigel Lythgoe – who earned the nickname ‘Nasty Nigel’ for his scathing behaviour on pioneering ITV talent show Popstars
During their time on the show, Nigel criticised Kym’s looks and instructed her to ‘lose some weight’ as he quizzed her over her diet and fitness during the formation of Hear’Say, their band which ran from 2001 to 2002.
In the clip, Kym asked, ‘Do you think I’m fat?’, to which Nigel replied, ‘I think you’ve put weight on over Christmas, are you exercising, is the diet right?’
Kym replied: ‘I’ve just started it today’, prompting Nigel to add, ‘You need to lose some weight you’re going on show six weeks from now, six weeks.’
Myleene has reshared the video to her Instagram Stories and said being fat-shamed was a ‘daily’ occurrence, while stylists would remove sizes from clothes to hide ‘the shame’ of having double-digit sizes.
She wrote: ‘Yes Daily. Stylist often cut the sizes out of some bands outfits to hide the ‘shame’ of ‘double digits’.
‘My Hear’say diaries are FULL of this s***. The boys were also shamed. Remember, TFI Friday had scales on set.’
Kym has been open about her struggles with self-image in the past, saying she became bulimic after she started comparing herself to smaller girls while at stage school when she was younger.
Nigel previously defended his comments about Kym on the show, saying: ‘[She’s] looking fabulous now, acting brilliantly, and she’s made a huge career for herself.’
The singers rose to fame on the ITV series Popstars in 2001 and became members of the band Hear’Say; (L-R Myleene Klass, Danny Foster, Kym, Noel Sullivan and Suzanne Shaw)
It comes after her former bandmate Myleene Klass , 47, took to Instagram to lash out at comments made by judge Nigel on the ITV show
Hear’Say formed on ITV show Popstars in 2001 and found success with their number one hit Pure and Simple.
Their first album Popstars, was a huge hit but their success quickly dwindled by the time they released their second album Everybody.
They split up in October 2002, less than two years after being put together on Popstars and cited ‘abuse from the public’ at the time as the primary reason behind the breakup.
Speaking last year, about what pressures she felt as a young person in the spotlight, Myleene told Loose Women viewers their management would ‘control how much we were eating’ as they were scared they would become ‘fat’.
She said: ‘I mean the scrutiny for a start. My daughter is 17 and if I look at one of my band members Suzie she was 18, so that’s one year away.
‘I think if someone put my daughter through that level of scrutiny or pressure…’
Although she admitted that things have got a lot better since then, Myleene went on to add: ‘Some of the experiences that we went through we were in no way equipped for it.
‘We were just five kids in a room at the end of the day – not unlike these five kids in a room and that’s all you have.’
