Emma Forbes on how she looks fabulous at 5. Few women approaching 5.

Emma Forbes was no exception. Alas, for celebrities, there is no escaping the long lens. On holiday in Barbados two winters ago, she was snapped on the beach with her family and was mortified by the result. I honestly didn’t recognise myself,’ she says. I thought, “Now is the time to really take control of my exercise and my health.”’Many of us make similar vows when the holiday snaps appear, but Emma has determinedly seen it through. She has completely overhauled her diet and made herself take regular exercise, which she used to hate. She was recently photographed on the beach in Barbados again and this time the photos went viral for all the right reasons.

She looked fabulous – so much so that one devoted Emma fan has posted a tribute to her on You. Tube. Few women approaching 5. Emma Forbes was no exception.

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But on holiday in Barbados two winters ago, she was snapped on the beach with her family and was mortified by the result (left) - so she decided to exercise and overhaul her diet, resulting in her new physiqe (right)Dress, £2. JD Williams‘How lovely! I haven’t seen it,’ she says excitedly. It was quite a shock when those pictures got such huge kudos, but it was very nice…if you’re my age. All my hard work has paid off.’Emma turned 5. TV presenter on the BBC flagship Saturday morning show Live & Kicking in the mid- 1.

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So it’s no surprise that she has been snapped up to model the spring/summer 2. JD Williams. Yet, although there is much to envy in her life – her rock- solid marriage to mega- wealthy financier Graham Clempson (it’s their 3. Lily, 2. 0, is studying graphic design in New York, and Sam, 1.

Los Angeles), her fabulous homes (a large house in Chelsea, a rented apartment in New York, plus a house being built in The Hamptons) – she has also had her fair share of problems. EMMA'S HEALTHY LIVING REGIMETYPICAL DAYBREAKFAST: Quinoa and oatmeal porridge with brown rice milk, loads of cinnamon and blueberries on the side. LUNCH: Soup and salad or fish and salad. DINNER: More fish and a grain, maybe brown rice, or a risotto. SNACKS: I’ve always got nuts and seeds in my bag. FITNESS ROUTINE In LONDON, I have a personal trainer two to three times a week and do everything from boxing to cardio, some weights and lots of stretching. In NEW YORK, I go to an Equinox gym and power- walk everywhere.

After Lily was born, Emma developed acute back pain, which resulted in surgery, and for many years she suffered from endometriosis, a debilitating gynaecological disorder (‘one of the things that actually gets better with the menopause!’). Her career in TV also came to a juddering halt after having children, which was a huge blow to her confidence. And, like so many women, she is part of the ‘sandwich generation’, caught between the needs of her children and wanting to care for her mother, actress Nanette Newman, 8. Bryan Forbes, died four years ago; they had been married for 5. Life is pretty nonstop,’ she says. For the children, I’m not just a mum but a love counsellor and not very good career adviser.

My mother has coped amazingly, but she and my dad were the ultimate love story, so one without the other doesn’t feel right. I have a huge sense of responsibility because I want to be there for her, but it’s almost harder looking after your parents than your children because it’s such a role reversal.‘The nice thing is you find a camaraderie among your friends. At dinner parties, people used to talk about children and schools, but now they say, “So you found a carer who would go in on a Tuesday? Really?” And, for everyone, it comes at a time when your life is changing, you’ve got this new- found freedom because your children are moving on and you want to do things for yourself again, so you’re constantly torn – it’s a real juggling act.’It should all be utterly exhausting, she says – particularly given that she has promised Sam, as she did Lily, that she will never go more than four to six weeks without seeing him, ‘so I’m going to be clocking up a lot of air miles’.

However, she credits the lifestyle adjustments she made for giving her renewed energy and zest for life. Jacket, £3. 0; top, £1. JD Williams. Emma wears dress, £6.

JD Williams. When those embarrassing beach pictures were taken two years ago, ‘Lily had just left for university and I was in danger of everything going downhill,’ says Emma. Crossing Over Movie Watch Online. Then, as part of her 5. Lily went on a girls’ trip to LA – ‘not quite Thelma & Louise, but we rented a convertible and drove around in the sun’. They then flew to the SHA Wellness Clinic in Spain, which Emma didn’t realise was all about digestion and the Japanese way of eating. After having my children, I’d never lost that 1. I thought I ate healthily, but I talked to a nutritionist there and everything changed. I took up a macrobiotic diet, really embraced it and felt so much better. Actually, I hate the word “diet”, it’s a lifestyle, and one I’ve fallen in love with because I was 5.

I was getting menopausal and I just wanted to feel my best. If I was going to be commuting to America, especially, I didn’t want to always be running on empty, grabbing meals here and there. After having my children I never lost that extra 1. Now I don’t eat meat, wheat, gluten, dairy or refined sugar. Refined sugar is probably the biggest diet problem of this century.

Once you take out all those things you eat very well; everything fresh, in season, no processed foods. I eat loads of fish and vegetables and I also eat plenty of carbs –good, healthy ones such as quinoa, buckwheat, millet and brown rice, plus nuts, seeds and fruit.’She admits some friends find it baffling. I’ve just been invited to a friend’s house for dinner and when I said, “Did I tell you…?” she emailed back saying, “I wish we were going to a restaurant now!”’ she laughs. But I’m a believer in everything in moderation, too.

If it’s someone’s birthday and there’s an amazing chocolate cake I won’t sit there and refuse to have even a bite, and I do “pretend drinking”. I will hold a glass of wine to be sociable. I might take a few sips but I don’t really drink.’Some women on rigid diets seem uninterested in food, but that does not apply to Emma. She started her TV career in the cookery slot on Going Live! Live & Kicking) and wrote cookbooks, both solo and with her mother and elder sister, journalist Sarah Standing, when her children were small.

She still describes herself as ‘a real foodie’, but some of the things she previously made so enthusiastically now make her shudder. I used to cook with sugar, even for the children; we didn’t give it a thought back then.’Her own childhood sounds idyllic, part of a happy household based partly in Virginia Water, Surrey, and the rest of the time wherever her father was filming.

They moved to the US for 1. The Stepford Wives and Emma went to school in Connecticut. Richard Attenborough and Katharine Hepburn were good family friends.

Emma, aged six, with her mother Nanette Newman, father Bryan Forbes and sister Sarah. When she first met her husband Graham, he was living in New York and she was going out with his best friend in London. After that relationship broke up, Graham moved back to London and they became flatmates, living together as friends for 1. It all changed when I realised he was looking for a girlfriend and I thought, “I don’t want you to do that,”’ she says.