ITV star Alison Hammond has been flooded with support from her fans and celebrity pals after she posted a photo of herself with no make up on.
The This Morning presenter posted a side-by-side image of a selfie she took during a workout at the gym with no make up on, next to a photo of her glammed up to present the breakfast show.
She wrote: “Without or with make up, I’ll always be enough! Embrace both looks and keep it real. Your beauty is you and the fact there ain’t no one like you in the whole wide world!”
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Alison’s post received nearly 200,000 likes and hundreds of people left messages of support to the star, whose candid message clearly resonated with her fans and famous friends alike.
TV star Vanessa Feltz told Alison: “You are gorgeous inside outside all the time and we’ve been pals for more than 20 years. You make the sun shine on my darkest days. End of!” Olympian and Loose Women star Dame Kelly Holmes said: “Frickin Love you for you.”
Alison’s This Morning co-star Cat Deeley said: “Gorgeous! Always!” and Ferne McCann wrote: “Gorgeous inside and out. You looked unreal today my lovely.” Loose Women star Katie Piper added: “Love this”
One fan wrote: “When you are beautiful on the inside you are always beautiful on the outside,” while another commented: “You look so gorgeous with and without you inspire girls and women out there.”
The post, which Alison has pinned to the top of her Instagram page was posted on Friday afternoon, after the star presented This Morning in her usual weekly spot alongside co-star Dermot O’Leary.
It came after Alison previously opened up about losing weight after managing to shed 11 stone. Alison told Good Housekeeping UK that she had not bee using weight loss jabs and achieved her weight loss through upping her exercise and having a good diet.
She said: “I think that, for people who need to use them [weight loss jabs], they’re a good thing – but for me, as soon as I hear any scare story, I get frightened. So I haven’t wanted to use them, but that’s not to say I wouldn’t in the future, and I certainly wouldn’t look down on anyone who did.”
She added: “My mum had type 2 diabetes and she was worried for me, so when I then found out that I was pre-diabetic, that was frightening. I thought: ‘I have to be an adult about this’. The sweets had to stop – and the fatty foods. Twice a week, I see my personal trainer and I have a couple of weights in my bedroom. I walk, I stretch and sometimes I do a bit of yoga.”