{"id":96561,"date":"2012-04-15T22:17:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T22:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2012\/04\/15\/loneliness-plagued-my-spice-girl-days-confesses-mel-c\/"},"modified":"2012-04-15T22:17:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T22:17:34","slug":"loneliness-plagued-my-spice-girl-days-confesses-mel-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/15\/loneliness-plagued-my-spice-girl-days-confesses-mel-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Loneliness plagued my Spice Girl days, confesses Mel C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/JDZWWWOEUZWIOMCKAXEO.jpg>In the heyday of the Spice Girls she was adored by millions of fans \u2013 but now Mel C has revealed she suffered from loneliness and isolation during her time with the group, amid rumours about her weight, eating and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s Review section of The Mail on Sunday, \u2018Sporty Spice\u2019 Mel C tells comedian and psychologist Pamela Stephenson she was labelled&nbsp; the plain Spice Girl who didn\u2019t do much.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I was often regarded as quite aggressive or masculine,\u2019 she said in an interview for Stephenson\u2019s new Channel 4 documentary on the price of fame.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There was questions about my sexuality and I was seen as the plain member of the band, you know, the ugly one in the back who doesn\u2019t do much. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018That was a rude awakening and I think it really wobbled me.\u2019<br \/>\nMel, now 38, revealed she constantly worried about her weight after joining the Spice Girls in 1996, aged 22, and embarked on a cycle of exercise and starvation diets, which led to depression and an eating disorder. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018It was my biggest fear,\u2019 she said. \u2018I became paranoid about putting on weight.\u2019<br \/>\nMel, who went on to launch a solo career, said she only got a grip on her weight fixation as she approached 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the heyday of the Spice Girls she was adored by millions of fans \u2013 but now Mel C has revealed she suffered from loneliness and isolation during her time with the group, amid rumours about her weight, eating and sexuality. In today\u2019s Review section of The Mail on Sunday, \u2018Sporty Spice\u2019 Mel C tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}