Once a self-confessed "ripped 22 year old," Peter Andre exclusively told OK! that his popstar image from decades ago means he has a lot to live up to.
The Mysterious Girl singer, 50, was often seen in his music videos throughout the 90s showcasing his ripped abs. Reflecting on that time, he knows that he had actually been "building a rod" for his own back.
Speaking candidly about his long-held body insecurities, the performer revealed to us that these days he would never take his shirt off in public and is still dealing with “psychological issues” after a single photo sent him spiralling into self-loathing.
A self-confessed yo-yo dieter, Pete says there was a time in his thirties when he “didn’t care about training”. As a result, he gained 3st from eating “pizza, Chinese, anything I could get my hands on, all day, every day”.
Recalling the photo that triggered his body insecurities, he says, “I was alone on a beach in the Bahamas, so I took my shirt off and went in the water. The sea was really rough and when I came out I remember I was gasping. There was some paparazzi photographer in the trees and he must have caught me breathing out.
“The photo got sent all around the world and it was the first time people had seen me like that since the early days. I remember the headlines – ‘Andre piles on the pack’. People who were heavier than me might have thought, ‘But he looks alright’, but in my mind I looked like Brendan Fraser in The Whale. We never see what other people see.
The effect of this sent his confidence spiralling.
“Now, I’ve got this psychological link to something and it’s stopping me just freely walking around the beach – I just won’t do it. It’s ridiculous.”
Peter has so much to be proud of. For one his beautiful family – wife Emily, 33, and their children together Amelia, 9, and Theo, 6, plus his two older children Junior, 18 and Princess, 15 from his previous marriage to Katie Price, are clearly his world. Secondly, his career has been growing in leaps and bounds lately.
An award-winning gangster movie role, surprise morning show hosting duties and a sell-out Michael Jackson tribute musical show have all meant that the star has been in hot demand for the first half of this year.
Peter joined forces with the National Philharmonic Concert Orchestra to celebrate the music of Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five at the famous London Palladium theatre for one-night only.
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