'There's No Point Focusing on Your Body if Your Mind's Not Strong'
Women's Fitness UK|August 2023
Recently crowned I'm A Celebrity All Stars winner and Skechers ambassador Myleene Klass tells us why her simple approach to fitness works
By Joanna Ebsworth
'There's No Point Focusing on Your Body if Your Mind's Not Strong'

Feel the fear and do it anyway. That’s the mantra by which Myleene Klass lives and it’s the same sentiment that helped inspire the multi-talented musician, presenter, fashion mogul and mum-of-three to temporarily swap motherhood and a dizzying number of work projects for a stint on this year’s I’m A Celebrity All Stars spin-off-show in South Africa.

A whopping 17 years after her 2006 foray into the Australian jungle – where she came runner-up to Busted star Matt Willis – Myleene managed to dazzle the British public and her co-stars all over again to be crowned the very first I’m A Celebrity Legend.

But this time around, her success had far less to do with taking waterfall showers in her iconic white bikini, and much more to do with her incredible display of mental resilience and fearlessness, along with a determination to face every challenge thrown at her head-on. Which raises the question: just how does she manage to stay so strong?

Rising to life’s challenges

‘I stay strong because I have a lot of little people relying on me,’ says Myleene. ‘I’ve been through a lot of really testing life situations, and those things can either destroy you or – what is it they say? - “Some women are lost in the fire, and some are built by it”? I very much feel the life experiences I’ve had, and the things I’ve had to endure and find a way through have given me the tools to say, “Well, what kind of person am I? Do I rise to the challenge of this? Or do I get destroyed by it?”.

This story is from the August 2023 edition of Women's Fitness UK.

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