Chloe Madeley details health struggles that led to new project

Chloe Madeley has admitted that a problem which afflicts all women is what led her to her new role. The 37-year-old mum of one is now an ambassador for a water-based probiotic, which she takes daily and started using after she suffered from bloating.

Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk she said: "I want to be very clear here that everybody suffers from bloating, especially if you're a female. Obviously, we know the menstrual cycle has a huge impact...and some people will find that they bloat slightly worse than others after meal times, or specifically if they have not enough fibre or too much fibre in their diet.

"I'm one of those people who's always really, really struggled with it, and that's why I started taking Symprove in the beginning. And that's actually why I carried on taking it. I noticed digestive benefits that went far beyond something as simple as bloating, which, as you get older, you realise isn't as big of a deal as you think.

"But it's had more of an impact on me that go goes far beyond that in terms of my digestive comfort. That's why I started taking probiotics in the first place - I was desperately trying to find something that would calm it [bloating] down.

"Because I used to do a lot of photo shoots, and it was always a gamble of how was I going to look on the day. And after all that hard work [in the gym], the last thing you want is to go into a photo shoot not looking like your hard work is being reflected," she explained.

The super fit star is refreshingly comfortable in her own skin although she admits to being concerned about how she looked in the past.

“I think because I had a profile in the public eye and my body did start to change [when she started weightlifiting] I started to find myself after a few months of it, being much more concerned with how it made me look.

"It was fun at first. I want to be very clear that you can have body physique or body aesthetic goals and have a positive body image. And I did at first. But what happened after a period of I would say maybe three, three or four years is that actually I was hyper-focused on how I looked,

"Of course [that look] became absolutely impossible to achieve and maintain year-round, because absolutely nobody can have extremely low levels of body fat and call themselves healthy year-round. It doesn't exist.

"It started to have a very negative impact on me, and I started to very quickly go the other way....I spotted it right away, because it was completely out of the norm for me, and I deliberately took a targeted year away from dieting.

"So I still trained, because I love training, and I still ate healthy, because I know how important nutritious eating is. But I stopped dieting and I gained probably about eight to 10 kgs. And I forced myself to get comfortable with it," she admits.

Unlike many celebrity ambassadors, Chloe has actually been a fan of the product she promotes for years and explained how she thoroughly tested the product by taking it and then eliminating it from her routine to see the difference.

"The supplement industry is kind of a bit of a cowboy industry, if I'm honest with you, especially when it comes to gut health supplements. There's a lot of pills on the market that don't even get down to the lower intestine, which is where they need to get to to really have an effect on your gut microbiome," she explains.

"I'm a really big believer in trying a product, seeing if any symptoms improve, taking it for a prolonged period of time...and then coming away from it for a few months and seeing what happens then. I've been taking Symprove on and off for about maybe six or seven years now - it's been a really long time.

Explaining the fact that Symprove is water soluble which means it can get to where it needs to she added: "I do notice a huge difference when I stop taking it in my digestion, in my immune function. So for me, it's always been one of those supplements that I'm like, 'I've tried it. I have my own anecdotal evidence.' It really agrees wth me and I really see huge improvements when I take it."

Chloe is working with Symprove which is a water-based probiotic that contains four unique strains of live and
active bacteria. Symprove is backed by GPs and health experts and boasts a 5* TrustPilot score with 9 out of 10 customers saying they would recommend it.