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<\/p>\nTina Malone has revealed the secret to staying trim following her 12 stone weight loss.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Shameless star, 60, who recently admitted that she used to drink 30 to 40 gins a day, dropped from a size 26 to a size six due to a gastric band surgery in 2010.<\/p>\n
Tina told The Mirror that she ate four small, healthy meals every day, started jogging and focused on eating plenty of fruit, vegetables and protein to help her feel fuller.<\/p>\n
She said: ‘I was skipping meals and eating rubbish, and even with the band, I was putting on weight.<\/p>\n
‘You need to eat well to get your nutrients and if you’re eating just fat and sugar, you’ll put on weight.<\/p>\n
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Looking incredible:\u00a0Tina Malone has revealed the secret to staying trim following her 12 stone weight loss<\/p>\n
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Impressive:\u00a0The Shameless star, 60, who recently admitted that she used to drink 30 to 40 gins a day, dropped from a size 26 to a size six due to a gastric band surgery in 2010<\/p>\n
‘A gastric band doesn’t change your mind or your personality.’<\/p>\n
She also told Closer that eating well remains a constant battle and recommends cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help change your mindset when it comes to food and exercise.<\/p>\n
Since she turned 60, Tina has\u00a0undergone a facelift, which has made her\u00a0feel the ‘sexiest’ she ever has in her life.<\/p>\n
This too stands true in the bedroom, where she admits ‘sex just gets better as you get older’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Opening up on her relationship with husband of 13 years, Paul Chase, 40, Tina revealed they have ‘always had that attraction’.<\/p>\n
Despite being on the brink of divorce in 2019, Tina assured that ‘things are good’ now.<\/p>\n
She explained: ‘Even in times when I’ve loathed him, and we all have that in relationships, in the worst of times – never ever has he not turned me on. We’ve always had that attraction.<\/p>\n
‘Sex just gets better as you get older. I’m 60 so I’m comfortable with myself. I like to think I’m accomplished at most things in my life now – and that applies in the bedroom too! Paul and I still have so much passion, after 13 years you know each other so well. He still gives me butterflies.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Past:\u00a0The Shameless actress (pictured on the show as\u00a0Mimi Maguire), who turned 60 earlier this year, made the move towards sobriety 25 years ago, going completely cold turkey<\/p>\n
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Marriage:\u00a0Opening up on her relationship with husband of 13 years, Paul Chase, 40, Tina revealed they have ‘always had that attraction’ (Pictured in 2014 with their daughter Flame)<\/p>\n
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Weight loss:\u00a0Tina said that she ate four small, healthy meals every day, started jogging and focused on eating plenty of fruit, vegetables and protein to help her feel fuller<\/p>\n
Tina has also appeared in prison drama Clink and even took part in Celebrity Big Brother in 2009.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She has been open about her weight loss and back in 2016, she candidly talked about how she had been attacked online during her\u00a0journey.<\/p>\n
Tina said at the time: ‘I’ve had more abuse with the last one and a half stone weight loss than I had with my pregnancy, my nine ops or my gastric band.’<\/p>\n
After her weight loss, Tina\u00a0went on to spend \u00a350,000 to remove her excess skin in 2015 in order to maintain her new found confidence in herself.<\/p>\n