Girls Aloud songstress Kimberley Walsh has revealed that dieting has always just been a 'quick fix' so she stopped doing it and now just maintains a healthy lifestyle. 

The beauty spoke to Cosmopolitan's new Body issue about her feelings about her own physique and explained that when she monitored what she ate and worked out, the results were never lasting so she decided not to do that again:

"Like most women, I dieted a lot as a teenager. I remember doing Atkins a few times before a video shoot. It worked, but it was always a quick fix. As soon as I stopped, I'd crave all the things I'd banned myself from and put the weight straight back on! I soon realised that I couldn't keep it up. I stopped dieting altogether when I was in my early 20s."

She added that having curvy, sexy women to look up to in the music industry helped with her own confidence: "It was only when people like J-Lo and Beyoncé came on the scene when I was younger that I thought, 'Well, if they’re considered attractive and sexy, then it can’t be that bad!' It’s really handy because you can see what they’re wearing and get tips on what might suit you."

Watch footage from Walsh's Cosmopolitan shoot here: