Gemma Collins shows off her lockdown weight loss in white summer dress as she goes shopping in Essex
GEMMA Collins indulges in some retail therapy as she shows off her slimmer figure in a summery white dress.
The 39-year-old star hit the shops in her local Essex wearing the cotton midi dress, Adidas sliders and wearing her long platinum blonde hair swept back in a low ponytail.
Gemma chatted on her mobile and carried her car keys in one hand before popping into the pharmacy for supplies.
The summer dress allowed the former Towie star to show off her more svelte figure as she continues her incredible weight loss journey.
She has managed to shed three stone and has been showing off her new body on Instagram.
Gemma revealed to The Sun Online, one of the main reasons she was losing weight is so she could become a mum by the time she turned 40.
The reality favourite has lost weight on the advice of doctors to help her get pregnant and she is already dreaming of life as a yummy mummy.
Gemma, who’s known as The GC, told The Sun: “I would love to have a child.
“It would be great for me and such a positive message for all the girls out there who don’t want to rush their life or their life has taken different a direction, like me who’s put their career first.
“I’m going to be up there with them all — Mariah Carey, Madonna, Kylie Minogue and Jennifer Aniston.
“Don’t write us off yet. We’re just beginning.”
Gemma is in a relationship with long-term on/off boyfriend James Arg Argent, 32, who is recovering from cocaine addiction, as revealed in The Sun last month.
He later thanked Gemma publicly for giving him “tough love” at the height of his drug habit and not hiding it from his family.
Over the past year she has had regular consultations with her doctor about the prospect of getting pregnant, having suffered a number of miscarriages in her thirties.
Gemma has been reassured she can have children but losing weight will increase her chances of conceiving and having a healthier pregnancy.
Another complication in Gemma’s pregnancy journey is that she has Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which triggers irregular periods, excess male hormones and enlarged ovaries.
Gemma was 28 when she was diagnosed with the condition after becoming alarmed by sudden weight gain. She says: “I was always very slim. But I really started piling on the weight and I’ll never forget it.
“I said to my mum, ‘Have you shrunk my clothes?’. She said, ‘I hate to break this to you, but you’re putting on weight’.”
According to the NHS, one in five women in the UK has PCOS. It is said to be hereditary and in severe cases sufferers can be left with excessive hair growth and acne.
Gemma has spent the last three months in lockdown with brother Russell and his family and recently revealed she is on the brink of buying her dream house in Essex – after a tree told her to do it.
Speaking on The Gemma Collins Podcast on BBC Sounds, she said: “By chance I was on a bike ride one day with my brother and he said, ‘Look at this (house),’ and I just knew. So I’m in the process of buying my first home.
“It’s so weird, I knew it was the house for me because literally when I rode up to the house on my bike there was this tree, and it was a rather big tree, and I felt like the tree was talking to me. It moved in this way, it was like whispering to me.
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“I went back to the house a few times. Every time I go back to the house, the one tree greets me and it’s beautiful. That’s when I knew it was the house for me.
“When I see this tree, I truly believe we’ve got a bond. This tree is telling me, ‘Gemma you’re meant to be here.’ I don’t know why but it gives me huge comfort.”