You may think that a New Years’ resolution or getting bikini-ready for summer may be the catalyst for crazy weight loss, but for brides, the day you get engaged is the day that your crazy diet begins. This is according to wellness expert Joanna Ebsworth, who was alarmed by the number of brides-to-be she met through her work who are going to drastic measures to be thinner.
According to Ebsworth, ‘Unfortunately for many women, it seems as soon as they get that ring on their finger, a signal goes off inside them telling them they need to start losing weight for the wedding.’ Many women even make the mistake of buying a dress one or two sizes too small to give them an incentive to lose weight, meaning that they fly into a panic when they realise closer to the day that their dream dress still didn’t fit.
Ebsworth noted the story of one bride from Nottingham: ‘After ordering her dress in a size 10, the bride-to-be realised two weeks before her wedding she hadn’t lost nearly enough to even get the dress done up, she went into a complete panic and basically went on a starvation diet, eating only steamed courgettes when she did eat. In the two days before the ceremony, nothing passed her lips apart from fluids and not one person, including her husband-to-be, could get her to eat. In the end, she passed out weak from hunger as she walked down the aisle, at the very moment when all eyes were on her, which is terribly sad and distressing to imagine.’
She also explained how another bride, this time from Sheffield, went under the knife so she could fit into her perfect dress. Weeks before her ceremony, she went abroad to have a tummy tuck operation that cost £7,000. Ebsworth said, ‘While the operation did get her into her dress, she was in serious discomfort leading up to the wedding and on the day, and then spent her dream beach honeymoon covered up because the bruising and swelling had yet to go down.’
‘It’s a bit bizarre when you think about it really, because surely, when a man asks you to marry him, he’s declaring that he loves you for you, and accepts you exactly the way you are? He’s not secretly hoping that if you accept his hand in marriage, you might drop a dress size or two,’ Ebsworth said, urging ‘brides need to keep things in proportion, and understand that their health, happiness and their relationship with their partner is so much more important than being thin. When you picture a bride, you picture someone who is glowing, radiant, and happy – not tired, stressed and scrawny!’
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