Oti Mabuse has showcased her impressive weight loss as she said she feels ‘stronger, healthier, and more alive’ after setting goals and dropped from a size 18 to a size 10
Oti Mabuse is best known for her impressive performances on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. She has also entertained viewers from her stint in the I’m A Celebrity jungle.
But after leaving the dance show and becoming a mother, Oti saw her weight rise. Now, the professional dancer, 35, has showed off her impressive weight loss transformation after shedding the pounds and dropping dress sizes.
Oti, whose younger sister Motsi is still a judge on Strictly, shared her weight loss journey with her fans. Oti, who is featuring on The Wheel this weekend, has since opened up on her bid to lose weight. In a candid social media post, she called it “one of the toughest but most beautiful experiences of my life”.
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Taking to TikTok last year, Oti explained the life changes she made in order to hit her target. She revealed she had dropped from a size 18 to size 10, confessing to feeling “stronger, healthier, and more alive”.
The decision came ahead of her latest tour and she explained she gave herself goals rather than getting on the scales. And she shared a video of her updates along the way. While she explained the journey keeps on going, Oti was very proud of her update.
At the time, taking to TikTok, Oti said: “After my pregnancy, dealing with gestational diabetes meant I had to be even more mindful of my health, especially being pre-diabetic. So I started to change how I approached food, movement, and how I looked at my own body.”
She revealed the weight loss journey wasn’t about “getting skinny,” but more rather about “gaining strength, confidence, and discipline in a way that feels sustainable and true to me”.
She continued: “And honestly? It hasn’t been easy. Changing lifelong habits, trying new foods, pushing my body in ways I never have before— it’s been hard work.
“But the results? Wow. To see my body transform, not just in shape, but in how it feels… that’s a win every day. I’m proud of where I am, at whatever size, and I want every woman to feel that sense of pride too.”
While Oti revealed at the time her weight loss was ahead of her tour this year, she coincided it with a spell on I’m A Celebrity. She fell just short of an appearance in the final.
She lasted 22 days in the Australian jungle and told Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly after leaving camp: “I expected to be nervous the whole time but when you’re in there… my goal became to focus and get the job done.
Discussing her efforts in the Bushtucker Trials in her eviction interview, she admitted: “You tell yourself ‘calm down, it’s not about – you feed the children’!”
During her time on Stricltly, Oti was crowned the winner on two occasions. Her first Glitterball trophy came with soap actor Kelvin Fletcher in 2019.
She followed up that achievement with comedian Bill Bailey in 2020. However, she went on to quit the show after performing with rugby player Ugo Monye in 2021 and she defected to ITV to take up a chair as a judge on Dancing On Ice in 2022.
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