Alesha Dixon: I’d love to have a Jennifer Lopez style bum

Alesha Dixon has revealed that unlike most female celebrities, she’s trying to gain weight instead of lose it.

After her strict training regime for Strictly Come Dancing and for climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief earlier this year, Alesha told Company magazine that she’s still slimmer than she’d like: “I always want to put on weight and I am still trying to get that Jennifer Lopez bum.

“I know it sounds weird that I’d rather put on weight, but I am averse to losing it - I prefer myself with more weight on.

“For me, the ambition in my life isn’t to achieve a washboard stomach. As long as I’m healthy, exercising and eating fruit and veg, I’m not going to deprive myself of chocolate.

“Up the mountain, I ate bags of Minstrels - they were my power sweet.

“I’ve learnt to be kinder to myself and not worry.

“In a way, I’ve had to I threw myself into something so challenging [as climbing Kilimanjaro]. It makes me think, What can’t I do? As tough as it was, I got through it.”