Linda Lusardi shares concerns about women who are losing too much weight
Former glamour model Linda Lusardi thinks women "become worse" for losing too much weight.
Linda Lusardi worries for women who lose too much weight.
The 67-year-old former glamour model also believes a large number of women are turning to fat jabs and starvation because they want to achieve a weight that their body does not want to be.
Asked if she felt body conscious as a model, Linda exclusively told BANG Showbiz at the 2025 Best Heroes Awards, sponsored by DFS: "Not because I was a model. I think all women are conscious of what they look like, and we're judged an awful lot on what we look like.
"But I think women shouldn’t feel pressured. Be what you want to be, and a lot of women are losing too much weight, and I think they become worse for it."
Linda thinks that if women exercise and are on a healthy diet, they will be at the right weight for their bodies.
She said: "I think if you eat healthily and exercise enough, you’ll be the weight your body wants to be.
"The trouble is, I think a lot of women are trying to be a weight that their body doesn’t want to be, so they’re having to starve themselves or take injections, or do things when they look absolutely beautiful as they are."
The former Emmerdale star's secret to ageing is moderating what she does, as well as doing a "little bit" of 16/8 intermittent fasting - eat within an eight-hour window daily and fast for the remaining 16 hours, with water, coffee or tea being allowed during the fast.
Linda said: "Moderation in all that you do, really. Don’t eat too much, don’t drink too much. Exercise a bit. We don’t do anything regimented. But I do do a little bit of intermittent fasting 16/8 a day."
Asked how 16/8 intermittent fasting has made her feel as a person, the brunette beauty added: "It’s just kept the weight off, and it means for the eight hours that I’m eating, I can eat what I want, really."
Linda - who began posing for pictures as a Page Three girl in The Sun newspaper in 1976 at the age of 18 and stopped in 1988 - thinks people were not so obsessed about a woman's weight "years ago", compared to nowadays.
She explained: "I think years ago, people weren’t so obsessed with weight. You were the size you were. You didn’t have to be a size zero to get modelling work. People liked women to look like women.
"But no - touch wood - I’ve never really had a problem in keeping it on or losing it."
