Jodie Marsh Talks Bodybuilding Challenge, Shows Off Muscles

Former glamour girl and tabloid darling Jodie Marsh is officially a bodybuilder. After winning fifth place in a national competition, the star dropped by This Morning to talk her routine, the challenge of bodybuilding and how it’s changed her life.

Though she started training for bodybuilding 3 years ago, she only decided to take part in competitions (and consequently get in shape for them) a few weeks ago.

Her progress has been documented about TV cameras for a new reality show that will premiere soon.

Speaking of how she got started, Jodie credits her achievement to trainer Tim Sharp. However, it hasn’t been an easy journey.

“It is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life and also the best thing. I feel amazing. I’m buzzing every day. I can’t believe it’s my body,” she says.

“Even when I look at pictures of myself, I think, ‘Is that really my stomach?’” she says.

She’s worked hard to get the body she’s now so proud of: she cut carbs from her diet completely, and has been living off entirely off egg whites and protein shakes, 15 of the former and 7 of the latter a day.

“I do three hours of cardio, two hours of weights and one hour of abs a day. I also do an hour of posing and routine work,” she adds.

Posing, Marsh reveals, is even harder than training because you have to keep your muscle tense for a long while and it can get pretty painful.

Nevertheless, at the end of the day, she’s happy with the choice she made, that of becoming a bodybuilder. She’s also proud that she’s managed to do so without steroids.

“For the TV show I had to be polygraph tested and drugs tested. All of these shows are natural bodybuilding shows. If you get caught on drugs then you are banned for life and you’re not allowed to compete,” she says.

“My body is 100 per cent natural and I’m proud of that, because I could have gone down the steroid route but I wouldn’t want to,” Marsh adds.

Check out her full interview below.