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<\/p>\nEastEnders alumna Charlie Brooks, 44, sent temperatures soaring on Tuesday after she shared her incredible weight loss journey on social media.<\/p>\n
The soap star, who reprised her role as Janine Butcher in 2022 before leaving the soap again, showcased her slim figure in a snap shared to her Instagram page, flaunting a dress she bought over two decades ago.<\/p>\n
Posing for a mirror selfie, the actress donned a black mini dress with a colourful abstract decal of a woman, along with a pair of chunky black boots.<\/p>\n
She tied the vintage ensemble together with a messy bun, layered necklaces, and a posed facial expression.<\/p>\n
Fans soon took to the comments to praise Brooks for her slender figure and beautiful dress.<\/p>\n
“Love the dress and you look amazing,” one user commented, with another saying, “Gorgeous dress! I love it x”.<\/p>\n
The mum of one revealed she had bought the dress before her daughter, Kiki, was even born, adding: “Funny how a piece of clothing can do that.<\/p>\n
“My face doesn’t look happy. But I am actually very happy”.<\/p>\n
The soap royalty, who shares daughter Kiki, 20, with her ex-fiance Tony Truman, previously revealed she had a very “complicated” relationship with her body.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Fabulous Magazine in 2021, she admitted to losing two stone in a month for her 2005 fitness DVD “Charlie Brooks: Before and After”.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t regret it, because it gave me an awareness of my body,” the star admitted, adding: “But on the other hand, I crossed over into that kind of slightly obsessive weight loss thing. <\/p>\n
“You know, always wanting to get back to \u2018that\u2019. I\u2019ve definitely had quite a complicated relationship with my body, never feeling pretty enough or healthy enough, and with the DVD it was extreme.”<\/p>\n
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Brooks in her iconic role as Janine Butcher for BBC Eastenders<\/p>\n
The TV villain has always been conscious of her health; she also went sober in 2021 after admitting alcohol consumption “always came at a price”.<\/p>\n
Brookes regularly shares positive and fun updates with her fans online, posting happy times with family and friends and celebrations of her sobriety.<\/p>\n
The actress shot to fame in 1999 when she joined EastEnders as TV villain Janine Butcher, who has been long branded one of the show’s most iconic characters. <\/p>\n
Her character was so popular that she was reprised twice after her 2004 departure; once in 2008 and again in 2022.<\/p>\n
Since leaving the show for good, she has yet to take up any acting gigs, instead opting for reality shows including Dancing on Ice and Richard Osman’s House of Games. <\/p>\n
Outside of on-screen romances, Brooks has had a slew of partners. Her ex-fiance, Truman, who owns several high-end Ibiza nightclubs, split with the star when their daughter was only two years old. <\/p>\n
She previously praised Truman, stating: “It was fantastic – there wasn’t a bad day – and I wanted to spend my life with him because he was gorgeous and still is<\/p>\n
“But I realised I needed to be on my own a little bit to find myself.”<\/p>\n
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Charlie and her ex-fiance Tony Truman<\/p>\n
Brooks had since had a few flames, including movie producer James Fuller.<\/p>\n
The romance was fleeting, as the pair split only weeks after announcing their relationship in the Summer of 2024.<\/p>\n
The actress however still only boasts about Truman, who even lived in the apartment above her for years to help raise their daughter.<\/p>\n
Brooks has no plans to return to EastEnders and hasn’t announced any future TV projects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EastEnders alumna Charlie Brooks, 44, sent temperatures soaring on Tuesday after she shared her incredible weight loss journey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[243,830,96,59,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bbc","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}