POP Idol legend Michelle McManus looked incredible in a bikini on holiday after her 9 stone weight loss.
The singer and broadcaster, 45, beamed in a colourful two piece as she posed beside a sun-drenched swimming pool.
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She wore a bright yellow cover-up over her swimwear and stood with her hands on her hips as the sun shone on her orange hair.
“So much fun in the sun,” wrote Michelle.
Her followers thought she looked fantastic, with one writing: “Looking fabulous as ever gorgeous one!”
Another said: “You look incredible x.”
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A third posted: “Looking Beltin’ Lady M!”
Michelle previously revealed her weight loss was down to a 17-month lifestyle change and hard work rather than turning to jabs like Mounjaro and Ozempic.
She told fans: “Before this change of lifestyle, I was stuck in a cycle, endlessly searching for that elusive magic diet wand, believing it was out there, waiting to instantly turn me into the best version of myself.
“I’d daydream about finding it, waving my wand, and bingo, becoming the person I always thought I needed to be to find happiness.
“But here’s the truth, that magic wand doesn’t exist. What I’ve discovered instead is something even more powerful, the right support.”
Working alongside life coach Liza Hardingbuck, the pair devised a plan that involved living in calorie deficit and introducing exercise such as swimming.
Michelle was sparked into action after having “dark thoughts” about not being there for her children if she died.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Michelle, who has Type 1 diabetes, said she carried a lot of “shame” after receiving negative comments about her body and weight.
She said: “I think through my 20s and 30s, I was so focused on going back to Scotland and having a go at this broadcast career and merely making myself a success that I didn’t really focus at all on my weight, which I know must sound insane when you say it out loud.
“Then I met my husband and then in my 40s I had these two beautiful babies back to back, two boys, Harry and Nicholas, and they’re four and two now.
“And when I had my children it was like a light switch went off because all of a sudden it wasn’t about me any more.
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“And I just started to have seriously dark thoughts about me passing away and not being there for the kids, or something happening to them.
“And I don’t know if other people that have kids can relate to that when your kids come along, they become the most precious thing, and I kept thinking, ‘What do I need to do? I need the best version of myself to make sure I’m here for my boys’.
“It isn’t about what the scales say, it’s not about the label that’s on your clothes, it’s just finding that moment where you can look in the mirror and say, ‘I really like you’, and it’s actually really sad that I didn’t like myself after having these babies in my 40s.”
Reflecting on her current self, she said: “I feel so much healthier. And I think the key to life is no one should tell you what you should weigh.
“You concentrate on you, and if you feel happy, that’s the key.”
She added: “I think now I’m in a place where I look at myself and I’m like ‘I actually really like what I see, and I’m really, really happy”.
Two decades on from her Pop Idol stardom, Michelle now hosts Afternoons, with Michelle McManus for BBC Radio Scotland.
Earlier this year she also sang with Robbie Williams at his Murrayfield gig in Edinburgh.
