Garden Rescues Charlie Dimmock opens up about her body image

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Garden Rescue star Charlie Dimmock opened up about her body image with a frank response to criticism over her appearance.

The curly haired blonde first found fame in the 90s after hosting Ground Force, before returning to the public eye on the BBC’s hit series, Garden Rescue. Her stint on the show has sadly seen her subject to cruel and negative comments about her body.

The 56 year old has always been known for her stripped back, natural looks; often seen sporting jeans and t-shirts while letting her golden mane fly free around her bare face. Over the years, like everyone, her appearance has altered which has led to some social media trolls targeting and body shaming the star.

Charlie hasn’t responded directly to trolls via social media, but back in 2016, she opened up about her fluctuating weight and defiantly hit back at critics.

She told the Independent : "I've always been up and down in my weight. I'll never be slim or skinny, let's put it like that. One season I'll be a size 14, then 18, but it's something I've just accepted now. I'm at that age where I think, life is too short.”

Reflecting on her chosen attire while filming Ground Force, which saw the Hampshire-born green-fingered horticulturist become one of the biggest sex symbols of her generation known for going braless, Charlie continued: “The TV presenter Esther Rantzen said to me: ‘You'll be labelled the bra-less one for the rest of your life.’ Ground Force was a long time ago, and I have to say, even now, people will bring it up. It is very silly.

“It was always just for comfort. If you're swinging a sledgehammer, you want to be comfortable! People say, ‘why don't you wear a sports bra?’ But those are not the comfiest things in the world.”

The gardening expert started Ground Force when she was 33 years old, and said she’d never been a “sex symbol” prior to that, so found it baffling to suddenly be referred to as one. She found the response to her body to be “a bit silly”.

Charlie described her experience with celebrity and in the spotlight as “a bit odd”, and found herself receiving a string of “silly letters” during her Ground Force days, including a “marriage proposal from a farmer in Australia” which was “sweet” though she didn’t “think it was serious”.

Speaking to the Radio Times about her former sex symbol image, Charlie said: "All that was all so silly and a long time ago. On this series [Garden Rescue] I can be a grumpy old cow – or, as they termed me, ‘the dragon’, but I hope with love in their voice."

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