Coronation Street Star Catherine Tyldesley has opened up about her “secret” health condition and addressed criticism over her weight in a candid interview.
The old Corrie The 42-year-old actress revealed she has been suffering from a health issue since leaving the soap and joining the Strictly Come Dance programming in 2019.
She confessed that her busy schedule and workload had impacted her health, increasing her hormones and causing fluctuations in her weight – at one point she wanted to have a baby without actually being pregnant.
“Most of the time my hormones are fine, but then Strictly and during the tour, they became a little cuckoo,” she said. The Sun.
“My estrogen levels can get a little high sometimes. The hours we work and everything. We have to be as fit as a fiddle in our job.
Catherine, who revealed she now knew better what her body needed and “respected it a lot more than I did then”, then got real when discussing Corrie’s portrayal of weight loss injections.
With Corrie’s Bethany Platt (played by Lucy Fallon) currently undertaking several weight loss sessions, Catherine highlighted the importance of this topic being covered in soaps.
The soap favorite has stopped Coronation Street in 2018, and this year it was announced that Eva would return later this year after a seven-year absence, with scenes airing last October.
