Gemma Collins Biography
Gemma Collins is an English businesswoman and media figure. From 2011 until 2019, she participated on ITVBe’s The Only Way Is Essex, and she has also appeared on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, Celebrity Big Brother, Celebs Go Dating, and Dancing on Ice. In 2018, she created her own reality series, Gemma Collins: Diva, and presented a BBC Sounds podcast.
How old is Gemma Collins? – Age
She is 42 years old as of 31 January 2023. She was born in 1981 in Romford, United Kingdom. Her real name is Gemma Clare Collins.
Gemma Collins Family – Education
Gemma is the daughter of Joan Collins, a part-time hairdresser, and Alan Collins, the director of Unisystems Freight. Russell, her older brother, is also a director of their father’s company. Collins grew up in Rise Park and attended Rise Park Infant School. Her youth was filled with love and family vacations, and she has fond recollections of her childhood.
Gemma Collins Husband
Jennifer dated Charlie King in 2012, who later came out in 2014. She reconnected with mechanic Rami Hawash, with whom she had previously dated in 2011. In 2013, the couple became engaged, but the engagement was called off. Collins was assaulted in 2014 by her then-boyfriend Alexander Moss. Collins had a brief relationship with James Argent in 2012 before reconciling with Rami in December 2017.
Their relationship, however, terminated owing to Argent’s cocaine addiction, which made her suicidal and caused her to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Collins restarted her relationship with Rami Hawash in July 2021 after being photographed wearing her engagement ring in April. They bonded after meeting again at a Madonna performance. Collins announced their second engagement in December 2021, along with hopes to conceive a baby with Hawash and chronicle the pregnancy and birth. Collins also takes care of Hawash’s son Tristan.
How much money is Gemma Collins worth? – Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of £7.3million.
Gemma Collins House
Collins lives in Roxwell, Chelmsford, in a barn conversion she purchased in 2021 for £1.35 million. She has characterized the house as her “dream home,” and it has undergone numerous improvements, including the addition of a swimming pool and a summer cottage. Collins enjoys gardening and has professed a fondness for flora. Collins is an animal and nature enthusiast. She has several life-size animal sculptures inside and outside her home, including a horse with a disco ball, a giraffe lamp, and a wooden Asian mother elephant and her calf, the former of which she donated £22,000 to CoExistence, an environmental art campaign founded by the Elephant Family.
Gemma Collins Weight Loss
Collins shed over two stone during her time on Dancing on Ice in 2019 and has since maintained her weight loss by adopting a more balanced diet and training regimen. She often shares exercise videos on social media and has documented her fitness progress.
Gemma Collins Surgery
Collins spent £2,000 on surgery to get a customized vagina in 2015. She declared her intention to have a breast reduction in 2020. Collins had her botox and fillers removed in 2021, claiming that she “didn’t look like herself” and preferred a more natural look.
Gemma Collins Illness
Collins began self-harming when she was a teenager and continued until she was in her early forties. Her first act of self-harm occurred when she was 13 and sliced her hand in front of her parents. Due to pregnancy problems, she underwent an abortion in 2004. Her relationship with her lover ended, and she began to suffer from anxiety episodes and binge eating. Collins has a polycystic ovarian syndrome and miscarried in 2012. She gave birth to a four-and-a-half-month-old fetus in 2012.
In 2020, she had her third miscarriage, which was initially misdiagnosed as a heavy period. She penned an open letter to Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, outlining her infertility challenges and thanking her for her candor. Collins has stated that she is afraid of never being a mother, but she maintains hope that she will be able to conceive naturally one day.
Gemma Collins Big Brother
Emma Collins entered the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2016 and was the ninth housemate to be evicted. She stayed at the house for 29 days and appeared on Sky News in October 2016 to discuss the effort to have the term “Essex girl” removed from the Oxford English Dictionary. Collins challenged the Essex females stereotype of being uneducated, promiscuous, and materialistic, which was deleted from the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary in December 2020.
Kelly Collins took part in Sugar Free Farm, a series in which she tried a sugar-free diet, in 2017. Despite following a stringent detox regimen, she gained weight during the process. She returned to Big Brother as a special guest for a shopping challenge in June 2017. Collins presented Love Island with the BBC Radio 1 Teen Award for Best TV Show in October 2017, but fell through a gap in the stage, which went viral. Collins admitted that the incident may have been fatal. Following the success of the video, other clips of Collins, including scenes from her performances on The Only Way Is Essex and Celebrity Big Brother, were exploited as memes.