Former EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy has regained a stone and a half in only eight weeks after her dramatic weight loss - and she blames her fitness DVD.

Read our privacy notice. Natalie Cassidy has revealed she was paid £100k to lose four stone for a fitness DVD but regained the weight two months later after bingeing on her favourite foods.

Natalie Cassidy lost weight doing a fitness DVD. (Getty) EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy has revealed she was paid a whopping £100,000 to do a fitness DVD — but that it 'wasn't the right thing to do'.

Joe Lycett painted the star’s famous DVD cover on a ceramic (Picture: Getty Images) Joe Lycett delighted EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy with his unique take on a portrait of the actress that he ...

EASTENDERS star Natalie Cassidy has admitted that she was paid £100,000 to lose four stone – calling her DVD “a mistake”. The soap star, who is best known for playing Sonia Fowler… ...

EastEnders' Natalie Cassidy has revealed her regret over accepting a huge £100k fee to lose four stone for a fitness DVD.

EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy has expressed regret over her Then and Now workout DVD, chronicling her weight loss. The Sonia Fowler actress explained she was asked to take part in the DVD ...

Natalie Cassidy has revealed she was paid £100k to lose four stone for a fitness DVD but regained the weight two months later after bingeing on her favourite foods. The EastEnders' star released ...

Natalie Cassidy has opened up about her body image, sharing that sometimes she feels like "the ugliest person in the room," whilst at other times feels "a million dollars".

She recorded Natalie Cassidy's Then and Now Workout DVD and then, in 2008, she appeared in the documentary Natalie Cassidy's Diet Secrets.

Natalie Cassidy was one of the best-known faces in soapland for more than 20 years. The London-born actor played schoolgirl Sonia Fowler in Albert Square from 1993. Leaving EastEnders may have ...