Saturday, April 30, 2011

What I see in the mirror: Stuart Baggs

'As a child, I was terribly bullied about my weight. You can't laugh along'

I was a massively fat kid. Fatter than  I am now ? and I'm still very fat. When I was 13, I weighed 16� stone. If you think that 10 years later I weigh 13�, you can imagine what that looked like. It wasn't pleasant. I had a shit diet. We ate burgers and chips, sausages and chips, pies and chips. It wasn't my parents' fault; I wouldn't eat anything else. I hate vegetables.

As a child, I was terribly bullied about my weight. You can't laugh along. Eventually, I suppose, lashing out, saying fuck off and dishing out harsh criticism to others is what's helped form my personality.

I'm a confident person, but the state of my body lets me down. My worst feature is my spare tyre. I would love to be able to head down to the beach and be like, "Check out the guns, babe", instead of sweating under a T-shirt. My "guns" are my biceps ? they're actually quite good. I do work out. I'm quite muscly as well as being really fat, which is an unusual combination.

I don't think I'm a vain person, because I don't care how I look. The problem is that other people do, hence my obsession with it. I think I'm realistic. There's good things about me, which I'll be honest about. That's why I seem so confident. I'm just saying it how it is. I am fat. When I'm skinny, I won't be like: "Oh, but I'm ugly." I'll say: "I'm fit as fuck, I know you want me, shut up."

? The Apprentice's Stuart Baggs stars in Celebrity Five Go To... on Channel 4 in May


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