'Linda's Helping Me To Lose Weight'

Actress Linda Robson is Paulines inspiration

- Georgia Farquharson

Pauline Quirke has been so inspired by her good pal Linda Robson’s transformation that she’s overhauling her lifestyle in a bid to lose weight – for good this time.

Woman understands the Birds of a Feather star – who has fluctuated from a size 28 to a size 12 in the past – is ‘making the biggest effort of her life’ to shed pounds, as she counts down to her 60th birthday. With our health expert, Laurel Alper, predicting she’s already lost up to two stone – here’s how she’s doing it…

DITCHING BAD HABITS

Like Linda, Pauline has struggled over the years with her fluctuating weight. She famously dropped a whopping eight stone back in 2011, after saying she realised she was the ‘size of a sumo wrestler’ and ‘morbidly obese’.

Pauline lost the weight by following a Lighter Life diet for 12 months. But it wasn’t long before the pounds slowly started to creep back on.

A well-placed source tells Woman, ‘Pauline is on a total lifestyle overhaul and is ditching all bad habits. She’s cut sugar out of her diet, she’s cut back on alcohol and is introducing light exercise into her routine.’