Vanessa Feltz has revealed why she regrets her gastric bypᴀss surgery after shedding three stone following the operation. 

The TV personality, 63, underwent the procedure back in 2019 which also included the removal of her gastric band which was fitted in 2010. 

Yet Vanessa has now admitted she regrets the procedure as she shared that she wishes she could have taken Ozempic instead. 

The star confessed in an interview with Heat magazine: ‘I also had a well-publicised gastric bypᴀss in 2019, which I never tried to hide in any shape or form, but now regret.

‘If I’d just hung in there for Ozempic or Mounjaro, I could have lost weight that way, without having an operation. So that was a shame.’ 

Several celebrities have lost weight before admitting to using a pharmaceutical at a later date, with Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg and Kelly Clarkson being among those.

Vanessa Feltz has revealed why she regrets her gastric bypᴀss surgery after shedding five stone following the operation in 2019 

The TV personality, 63, underwent the procedure back in 2019 which also included the removal of her gastric band which was fitted in 2010 (pictured in 1995) 

And with more and more celebrities being rumoured to be taking the drug for weight loss purposes, Vanessa also revealed whether she thinks celebrities should be more open about taking the drug. 

She added: ‘I honestly think it’s o one’s business. People should be doing what they’re doing if they want to. As far as the people I know who are taking it, they’re very keen to talk about it.’

Vanessa first slimmed from a size 22 to a size 10 between 1999 and 2000 but later put the weight back on.

She lost 2st in 2004 but gained it again, and 2007 she dropped 3st but it all returned and she ended up back at a size 22.

In 2010 she had a gastric band fitted which made her stomach smaller and stopped her from overeating but she suffered complications when became embedded in her liver.

Vanessa said she learned to eat in a different way with the gastric band – she was not able to eat large amounts of solid food but she could consume softer substances, such as ice cream.

The former Celebrity Big Brother housemate said she ate ‘thousands of calories’ and sabotaged the operation she’d paid for.

She later decided 2019 to have a gastric bypᴀss, which saw a small pouch created in the stomach and connected to the small intestine, bypᴀssing the rest of the stomach and meaning she took in less food and felt fuller for longer.

The star revealed: ‘If I’d just hung in there for Ozempic or Mounjaro, I could have lost weight that way, without having an operation. So that was a shame’ (pictured in August 2019) 

Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey are among the celebrities who lost weight and then admitted to using a weight loss drug at a later date 

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The procedure led to her losing a further 5st and she has kept the weight off since.

Vanessa previously revealed her weight loss struggles started after her mother Valerie forced her to take black market amphetamines to ‘slim down’ at age 20.

In her memoir Vanessa Bares All, the TV personality delved deep into her childhood trauma and explains what led to her yo-yo dieting.

She admitted her problems with weight began when she was nine years old and was put on a very strict diet.

Vanessa said she was deprived of food and often went hungry because her mother didn’t want her to put on an inch of weight.

She said: ‘By the time I was 20, my mother Valerie had begun scoring diet pills for me from her hairdresser.’

‘While I felt sick, the pounds magically evaporated. I slid into a size eight. I spouted hip bones. Chunks of skeleton were visible beneath my skin. 

‘I wasn’t slim but that holiest of holy grails – thin, verging on gaunt. I looked like a malnourished bush baby. It was all I’d ever wanted’.

In one childhood memory, Vanessa explains she was forced to eat a grapefruit for dinner while the rest of her family had soup.

Looking back at her past, Vanessa said it almost felt like a ‘punishment’ but she never knew what she had done to deserve it.