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WE LOST 19 STONE! ANT’S REHAB SHOCK WIFE’S TRAUMA DIANA ‘I WANT MY ANNIVERSARY ANT BACK!’ TRIBUTE William & Harry Insideour MUM’S PRIDE HIDDENGRIEF Down’s won’t stop ✱‘I felt it would break me’ Lily being a model ✱‘It never heals’ DROP A SIZE FROM ALL WITH SLEEVES £18 Healthy starts here… ON The health & fitness SALE magazine that works for YOUR life NOW Inside this issue! p12 p42 p50 p62 Does your teenage daughter ever ‘borrow’ your precious clothes – or p16 do you ever try on some f her new purchases? If p21 so, check out the results when we asked mother and daughter Sarah and Lois to try on four identical outfits (p24). But if you draw the line at trying on her bikini, you’ll get some p22 inspiration from Sonia, 50, who happily wears one to the beach (p49)! Enjoy the issue… Editor, Woman HALF-PRICE Your Your Your News NOVEL OF THE LIFE LOOKS TIME &GOSS WEEK WITH 14 Talking about 16 Fashion confidence 40 Eat right tonight 4 Week in style Opposites attract! 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Alternatively, from the UK, call 0330 333 1113, or from overseas, call +44 330 333 1113 (lines are open Monday-Saturday, 8am-6pm UK time, excluding bank holidays). us at 161 Marsh Wall, London COVER PHOTO: REX E14 9AP ✱ On the cover BOUT TOWNTOWN Chloe, Sara & Helen bring you the latest gossip... GET WELL SOON ANT’S REHAB SHOCK ‘WE JUST NEED HIM BETTER’ After news broke of Ant McPartlin’s stint in rehab due to a drink and prescription drugs addiction, fans flooded social media with good wishes. His wife of 10 years, Strictly make-up artist Lisa Armstrong, tweeted, ‘Completely overwhelmed by all your love & support. I’m relieved he’s receiving the help he needs, we just need him better.’ Lisa, who like Ant’s on-screen partner Dec, was apparently unaware of the extent of Ant’s problems, will be desperate to get her husband back as Ant faces two months in rehab without visitors or phone calls. It’s believed Ant’s mental health deteriorated following a knee operation and fears he and Lisa would never have children. ‘I’ve Dec has let people down, and I’m truly sorry,’ says offered his full Ant. ‘I want to thank my wife and family support for for helping me through this difficult time.’ best pal Ant Gossip to go 4 Congrats to Katie Piper who is expecting her second child, joining Belle, three 6 WOMANMAGAZINE.CO.UK PHWOAR! Listen mate, my scythe and I got here first! The Great Poldark Hunk Off After the furore that surrounded Aidan Turner getting his top off in the first series of Poldark,we wouldn’t be surprised if the show’s newest hunk Harry Richardson, who plays Demelza’s brother Drake, shied away from the spotlight. But if this toned torso is anything to go by, Aidan’s got serious competition in the totty stakes! Who’s better, What we Aidan or Harry? There’s only one wouldn’t give thing for it – a mud fight... for a refreshing dip in Cornwall... PHOTOS: GETTY, REX, IMSTAGRAM @ANT&DEC Is this how you hold the curtain, Great Gran? RYLAN’S DOUBLE BABY DREAM He’s got one of the busiest jobs in showbiz, but This Morning and Big Brother host Rylan Clark-Neal has spoken about TAKE! taking a year out to have a child Princess Charlotte really is the spitting image of her great- with husband Dan. ‘It’s always grandmother, the Queen. And if those chubby cheeks on the table, but it’s just when weren’t proof enough, check out this lookalike floral dress the time is right,’ says Rylan. ‘If Charlotte sported as she watched Trooping the Colour I did have a baby, I’d be the sort before making her balcony appearance! We bet Her to want a year off just to be a Majesty has got a real soft spot for her mini-me! dad.’ Ooh, fingers crossed! 4Ooh-er! Coleen Rooney said to be in a bidding war between Strictly and Dancing On Ice! rincess Diana’s tragic death has taken many royal commentators by caused a shockwave of grief surprise, Ingrid believes the princes had across the world. But few their reasons. ‘They’ve had to offer up Pof us could compare our their own emotions in order to get the sadness with the pain felt by maximum impact for the charity work her young sons, William and Harry. with Heads Together, and they knew While the nation howled and wept they’d have to address the anniversary on the day of her funeral, the princes too, so it’s probably a combination of the solemnly kept calm as they walked two. The whole world has an opinion on behind their mother’s coffin. what happened with Diana, but she And now, after two decades of keeping was their mother, and this is them a stiff upper lip, Diana’s boys have decided reclaiming her for themselves and not to open up and speak frankly for the first allowing anyone to put words in their time in a series of heartbreakingly honest mouths. It’s very brave of them to confessions about their suffering talk so openly, and I’m sure they didn’t following their mother’s premature death necessarily want to tell the world, but at the age of 36. ‘I am not looking forward they decided to do it for the best. It’s to it [the anniversary],’ says William. ‘But the ultimate tribute to their mother I am in a better place about it than I have and how open she was.’ been for a long time.’ Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty magazine and author of e-book Diana: The Last Word, tells Woman that the looming anniversary is probably not the only thing that has encouraged the boys to open up, but it’s also the support of the women in their lives: Kate and Meghan. ‘William has frequently said that family is the most important thing and how much he depends on it because royal life is very lonely,’ she explains. ‘You’re sort of removed from the rest of the world and automatically alienated, so being in a stable relationship will give you that confidence to speak out.’ And while this unprecedented break in the Windsors’ traditional stoicism WILLIAM: ‘I STILL HAVEN’T DEALT Princes break WITH THAT GRIEF’ William recently expressed his devastation over the loss of his mother at the age of 15 in a remarkably candid interview with GQ, one of a series of high-profile interviews the royal princes will undertake as the August anniversary draws closer.