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Dominique Hines

‘I didn’t want to spend hours in a gym after having a baby’: Tina Daheley slams post-pregnancy body pressure

Tina Daheley says that women’s bodies are under particular scrutiny in her industry

(Picture: Dave Benett)

Tina Daheley said she defied the pressure to go back to her pre-pregnancy weight after giving birth to her daughter last year.

The BBC presenter, who is mother to daughter Athena, 16 months, said she returned to work “at least five kilograms heavier” than she was before pregnancy, but refused to be a slave to the gym to get her pre-baby body back.

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