Michelle Visage 'lost three and half stone' without surgery

Michelle Visage has managed to lose three and a half stone without surgery,

The ‘RuPaul's Drag Race’ judge got into lifting weights to deal with the "loose skin" after her dramatic weight loss and urges women scared of the exercise regime making you bulky that this isn't the case.

The 54-year-old TV star told OK! magazine: "I work out six days a week and I take one day off – it is a lot but time is ticking.

"I lost three-and-a-half-stone recently and, as a woman of a certain age, I had this loose skin and I didn't want to have surgery. I thought, ‘How am I going to make this appear tighter and change the shape of my body without having it surgically altered?’ So I started heavy lifting.

"I think a lot of women in particular are scared of lifting weights because you hear, ‘Oh, I don't want to get too big,’ but that's just not going to happen. It's not how it works."

Michelle fought back against the "stigmas" surrounding the menopause as she advocates finding a "hormone specialist" because GPs don't really know the ins and outs.

She said: "With menopause, my God, you don't need to struggle. There are answers and there is help – you just have to ask your doctors. And I would always recommend going to a hormone specialist because most doctors really don't know what you need to do to help you out.

"Stigmas are so silly. I think that in the 1950s they were a thing, but that doesn't exist any more.

"We have to really just keep breaking down the boundaries because it shouldn't be taboo to talk about something that happens to every single woman. You can't avoid it. There's not one woman who's going to bypass it. So they have to know they’re not alone and they don't have to suffer."

The former ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ contestant - who has daughters Lillie, 23, and Lola, 21, with her husband David Case, 54 - believes there is something unique about the Brits cope because they "don't like to ruffle feathers".

Michelle said: "Because you’re more polite, you don't like to ruffle feathers. You don't like to even speak up for yourself at times. You apologise a lot – unnecessarily so – and you certainly don't need to apologise for coming through menopause. This is part of life. So no apologies. Those stigmas? Talk about them and get the help you need."