Aja Rochester determined to lose as much weight as possible on I’m A Celeb

Weight loss was top of mind for former Biggest Loster host Ajay Rochester when she decided to head into the South African jungle for I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!. She has now revealed her struggles.

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Weight loss was top of mind when Ajay Rochester made her way into the South African jungle on Sunday night.

The former Biggest Loser host said she was willing to do almost anything to compete on the new series of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! in a bid to shed as many kilograms as possible.

Ajay Rochester is one of ten celebrities in the South African jungle this year. Picture: Supplied/Channel 10

She wants to lose as much weight as possible to look like her younger self.

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“I want to lose my fat butt,” the straight-talking 49-year-old told Confidential, chowing down on a block of chocolate before premiering on the show on Sunday night.

“I am so fat right now. I am so unhealthy. It is terrible. Clearly I have issues. I am just a bit chunky in my older years I guess. I am a big girl with thick thighs.”

Rochester was vocal about her weight battles when she hosted four seasons of The Biggest Loser from 2006 to 2009.

But only now, a decade later, is she able to truly reveal the extent to which she used to go in order to be “camera ready”.

Rochester has no detailed the extent she went to lose weight and be camera ready.

“It was really bad,” said Rochester, who has previously had gastric band surgery. “I was really tortured. I would eat nothing. I would take diet pills. It just wasn’t healthy and I was so hangry, I was a horrible person.”

Rochester was unveiled as one of 10 contestants competing on the fifth season of I’m A Celebrity.

They will eat a basic diet of beans and rice and previous seasons have seen contestants lose huge amounts of weight.

“I haven’t weighed myself but I could be a contestant on The Biggest Loser easily,” she said.