The moment I knew Lauren’s “friend” who phoned up The Sun to restore her image was actually Lauren herself:
"She called me and said, ‘I know I’m not fat, I’m a normal woman and don’t look like I do in those pictures in real life.’
"At the end of the day, the average size of a woman in the UK is a size 16 and Lauren loves her curves.
"Her weight has been a public obsession for 12 years and she’s bored of it now. She thinks people need to get over it.
"She feels like a lot of photographers go out of their way to take the worst pictures from angles that make her look bad.
"Lauren goes to the gym several times a week, but it’s for her mental health, not to lose weight. She’s not interested in a number on a scale and her days of crash dieting are over.
"She’s a mum now and wants to be happy and healthy for her daughter Larose.”
Also, she’s just going to say she has anxiety and can’t attend the hearing because of mental
, end of, right? And Towie’s perfectly OK with her doing OF and having advertised cyanide, they’re not going to care.