Woman looks at how the GMB star has managed to reverse the years
WORDS: ROBYN MORRIS.
At 53, Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid is looking more youthful than ever. While those eye-watering early starts – the star has admitted her alarm goes off at 3.40am – would leave most of us looking haggard, Susanna is glowing.
The star, who is mum to Sam, 22, Finn, 20, Jack, 19, has said, ‘The early starts are baked into the job. From the outside it looks like a bizarre, strange, unnatural time of the morning but for me it’s just work. You build strategies, habits and rituals for dealing with it.’ But while the lack of sleep has been part and parcel of her job for decades, there’s no denying that the star is looking her best at the moment. So how has she done it?
Here, we take a look at Susanna’s secrets…
New ’do
For years Susanna stuck to her famous long, dark hair. But when she returned to GMB after the summer break last year, the presenter debuted her new bob complete with caramel blonde highlights, telling fans, ‘New term, new trim,’ adding, ‘The mid-life hair debate! At 52, I’ve had the CHOP.’ Sitting alongside Ed Balls during her first show back, she said of the new ’do, ‘I feel a little lighter.’ And the fresh cut and colour has clearly worked wonders for Susanna, with one fan commenting, ‘You’re ageing backwards,’ while another added, ‘You look amazing and younger.’ A third follower said, ‘You look so much better and younger with shorter hair,’ while another noted that the trim has ‘taken years off of her.’
Healthy lifestyle
But Susanna’s new hairstyle isn’t the only thing that her fans have picked up on recently. While most of us are still trying to shift unwanted excess Christmas weight, Susanna is looking super lean. ‘Someone has worked hard,’ one of her Instagram followers commented, while another added, ‘Lost so much weight.’ Another told her she is looking ‘very trim’.
The star has been very open about her weight struggles in the past, previously admitting that her anti-social working hours have made it difficult to maintain a healthy diet. ‘I have to admit, I’d been feeling a little heavy for a while,’ she confessed. ‘It can creep up without you noticing, and what I did was cut out snacking. I found waking up so early in the morning you’re in a sort of energy deficit. All your body can think is, “Have toast, have biscuits, have calories”, and you can
