Ex Blue Peter host Katy Hill reveals she was call 'fat' by BBC producer

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00:00I remember landing the job on Blue Peter and somebody actually said to me you're a bigger

00:04girl and you don't carry yourself very well on camera can you imagine I was a size 12 14. I

00:11remember back in the day being given a trainer by a magazine to get my baby weight back in inverted

00:16commas the headline is so horrifying and I know for a fact it's not words that would ever have

00:22come out of my mouth Katie Hill inverted commas I'm not gonna be a lard ass mum it's amazing that

00:31I don't and have never had an eating disorder of any kind most of the tv girls that I was with at

00:37the time definitely suffered from bulimia and anorexia that was rife a lot of people did drugs

00:42because that was a way for them to stay skinny the media the tabloids it was brutal and toxic and

00:49you experienced that first hand suddenly when I left the show my agent was like well maybe we

00:54need to get things a bit more sexy and I think it'd be great for you to do a magazine shoot with one of

00:59the lads mag so imagine my horror when the magazine comes out and I opened the calendar and I was like

01:04who is that oh my god it looked nothing like me they made my eyes brown they chiseled my chin

01:12they've elongated my legs they've shrunk my I mean all of it I don't really see how you can come out

01:18of that period or be in that period unscathed I don't quite know how I did it