Vanessa Feltz shows off her slim frame as she celebrates her 63rd birthday with a dip in the pool during a holiday

Vanessa Feltz showed off her slim frame as she celebrated her 63rd birthday during a holiday abroad on Saturday. 

The broadcaster celebrated with a dip in the pool while her friends filled their villa with decorations. 

She has been candid about her challenges with her weight in the past, having fluctuated dramatically between sizes 10 and 22 but made show to show off her hard work as she slipped into a pink dress. 

Vanessa looked incredible in the brightly coloured maxi while posing for a series of photos by the pool. 

The TV personality later added a fun pair of beaded sunglasses and a headband which read, 'It's my birthday,' as the party got started. 

She looked as confident as ever as she flashed a smile before changing into a swimming costume.  

Vanessa first slimmed down from a size 22 to a size 10 between 1999 and 2000, but later put the weight back on.

She lost two stone in 2004 but gained it back again and in 2007, she dropped three stone, but it all returned and she ended up back at a size 22 shortly after.

In 2010 she had a gastric band fitted which made her stomach smaller and stopped her from overeating, but she suffered complications when the band became embedded in her liver.

Vanessa said she learned to eat in a different way with the gastric band - she was not able to eat large amounts of solid food but she could consume softer substances, such as ice cream.

The former Celebrity Big Brother housemate said she ate 'thousands of calories' and sabotaged the operation she'd paid for.

She later decided 2019 to have a gastric bypass, which saw a small pouch created in the stomach and connected to the small intestine, bypassing the rest of the stomach and meaning she took in less food and felt fuller for longer.

The procedure led to her losing a further five stone and she has maintained a slender frame since.

Vanessa has previously spoke about where she thinks the source of her yo-yo dieting has stemmed from as she revealed her mother Valerie forced her to take black market amphetamines to 'slim down' at age 20.

In her memoir Vanessa Bares All, the TV personality delved deep into her childhood trauma.

She admitted her problems with weight began when she was nine years old and was put on a very strict diet.

Vanessa said she was deprived of food and often went hungry because her mother didn't want her to put on an inch of weight.

She said: 'By the time I was 20, my mother Valerie had begun scoring diet pills for me from her hairdresser.'

'While I felt sick, the pounds magically evaporated. I slid into a size 8. I spouted hip bones. Chunks of skeleton were visible beneath my skin.

'I wasn’t slim but that holiest of holy grails – thin, verging on gaunt. I looked like a malnourished bush baby. It was all I’d ever wanted'.