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Singer Frankie Bridge has opened up on her struggles with depression, saying it is “absolutely kicking my arse”. The former member of the pop group The Saturdays made the comments in an Instagram post as “a little reminder that sometimes we have bad days”.
The 36-year-old, who is an ambassador for mental health charity Mind, has openly discussed her mental health since 2011. In the post she said: “I have finally made it down to the gym, it has taken me the whole day to actually get here.
“My depression is absolutely kicking my arse at the moment, I’m so over it.
“You just feel like you do all the things you’re told you’re meant to do, and then it just still always comes back.
“I’m just so bored of myself, it is so boring, and I just think everyone around me must just be so bored of it as well, and I just, I’m over it.
“But I’m here, I’m going to try and do as much as I can in the gym, because I know it will make me feel better, instead just sitting around eating shit, which is what I’ve been doing all day, which only makes me feel worse, and I know that, so I don’t know why I do it, but here we are back in the same old place.”
She posted an update after her workout explaining how it had made her feel better.
Frankie, a panellist on ITV’s Loose Women, added: “So there is not much that a little bit of Paramore and a workout can’t fix, I definitely feel a lot better.
“And if I hadn’t have come in, I’d have just berated myself even more, that I had the whole day that I was able to come to the gym, and I just didn’t, I just sat around and just wallowed in self-pity, and so I am glad that I did it, and I do definitely feel better for it.
“I feel like it’s picked me up, but why couldn’t I have done this earlier? And then I might have had a better day, but then, equally, I just couldn’t do it.
“I just couldn’t get in here before now, so it is what it is, I should just be pleased that I’ve done it.”
Frankie wrote in another social media post earlier this month that her “mental health plummeted” after “suffering with various illnesses”.
The singer, who is married to former England footballer Wayne Bridge, began her career in 2001 with S Club Juniors. The spin-off from pop group S Club 7 released seven singles and two albums.
In 2007 she formed The Saturdays with Rochelle Humes, Una Healy, Mollie King and Vanessa White. They achieved 13 UK top-10 singles and five UK top-10 albums before splitting in 2014.
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