Gemma Clare Collins (born 31 January 1981) is an English television personality and businesswoman. In 2011, she began appearing on the ITVBe reality series The Only Way Is Essex, and following further appearances on television, she became a contestant on the seventeenth series of Celebrity Big Brother and the eleventh series of Dancing on Ice.
In August 2019, she began starring in her own reality series, Gemma Collins: Diva Forever.
Gemma Collins' raw confessions on her body image during TOWIE as she reveals brands deemed her 'too fat' to dress
ok.co.ukGemma Collins has slammed the brands who refused to dress her in the early days of TOWIE because they deemed her “too fat”. The Diva Forever star opened up to viewers about her physical image on the hit ITVbe show, in her acceptance speech after being awarded the gong for TOWIE’s Greatest Icon during the 10th Anniversary special.
In a prerecorded speech, in which the star wore a jumper emblazoned with the title ’01 ICON’, the star sassily hit out at brands that had ignored her, and discussed her body.
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