Cheryl Cole has been speaking about how she battled to control her weight in 2003.
In an interview in the February edition of Vogue, details of which are published in The Sun and The Daily Mail, Cole reportedly says: "I remember being in Selfridges and taking these size 28s into the changing room and not being able to get them on, and then getting on the scales and crying because I was nine-and-a-half stone. Nine-and-a-half stone when I'm only 5ft 3in.
"Jennifer Aniston was doing something called the Atkins Diet at the time and I thought I'd give it a try.
"The record company had just moved us into this hotel called K West and I remember I ate the same thing from room service - chicken in cream sauce with a couple of carrots - every night, for weeks, and I just felt horrible. But I was on this mission."
