'\'I love my muscles because weight training saved me\': Chloe Madeley reveals how she turned to bodybuilding as her life spiralled out of control but now gets death threats for over-exposing herself to promote her career Chloe Madeley, 28, is bombarded with abuse on social media each day Much of it criticises her body, which she shows off to promote her career She turned to extreme exercise when her life spiralled out of control Most of us would be in emotional tatters if we spent just an hour on the receiving end of the bile, loathing, jealousy and general trolling with which fitness expert Chloe Madeley is bombarded each day on social media. It starts between 5am and 7am, at the time when she\'s doing her first cardiovascular workout of the day. \'It\'s as if they have to get it off their chest before they can get on with their day,\' she says. There\'s another burst mid-morning, followed by more vitriol trickling through in dribs and drabs for the rest of the day. It is all deeply personal — much of it criticising her muscled body, of which, as a result of countless hours of weight-lifting and high intensity work-outs, every sinew is clearly visible. There\'s one particularly evil person (described by Chloe as her \'No 1 Troll\') who takes the depravity to a whole other level. \'He or she, I don\'t know which, threatens me with rape, death and pretty much anything you can think of in between. It\'s very graphic.\' So awful, she can\'t bring herself to elucidate. \'I don\'t want the words to come out of my mouth.\' It\'s not just Chloe who is constantly under attack. Another target is her England rugby player boyfriend, James Haskell. He may be 6ft 3in and 18 stone, but on the internet he\'s easy prey for cowards. Also trolled are her parents, the television presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, her three brothers and her friends. All this is very damaging to Chloe, who runs a flourishing health and fitness business, for she is constantly being falsely branded \'a fake, a phoney and on steroids\'. Typical of these cowards, to avoid detection they\'ll delete their social media account and then open another one, launching yet more vitriol. So, what has 28-year-old Chloe done to get such abuse? Very publicly, she has posted a lot of photographs of herself on social media, displaying acres of toned flesh and a spectacularly impressive eight-pack, in a series of minuscule gym outfits, all to promote her business, Fitness Fondue. She is the first to admit the images are rather vain and narcissistic. Her parents\' fame doesn\'t help. either. Indeed, the worst abuse began two years ago just after Judy appeared on ITV\'s Loose Women and commented that rapist footballer Ched Evans should be allowed to return to play for his team, Sheffield United, because the rape was \'unpleasant\', but \'not violent\'. \'It just blew up so massively,\' says Chloe today. Her mother was forced to apologise and the media uproar soon died down. But the revenge trolling against Chloe continued. \'Back then, I was wound up and panicky, and was really struggling. I had very bad anxiety and was finding it hard to find my way.\' First, she abandoned her English degree at Leeds University after four months, saying she was \'just so over the whole education thing\'. She joined a PR company, then left that to follow her parents into TV. As she embraced celebrity, her anxiety just spiralled. \'It crept up and up. I felt I was out of control. I was desperately unhappy. I was so nervous all the time. \'I kept thinking: \"How did I come across? What did I say? Did I act like a spoilt brat?\" It messed me up so badly…\' One of her first jobs was as a roving reporter on her parents\' TV show. Understandably, she was accused of benefiting from nepotism. She also became the face (or body) of Ultimo underwear, and appeared on a series of \'celebrity\' reality TV shows. \'Of course, my name helped 100 per cent in terms of money-making,\' she admits. But she claims it was a short-term gain, because in the longer term few people took her seriously and many saw her only as the spoilt child of two celebrities. Indeed, for a while her life involved a seemingly endless round of parties. She also jumped headlong into various doomed love affairs. Next, she hit the headlines for drink-driving and taking drugs. After a night out on cocktails, she flipped her car while almost twice the alcohol limit. She was also pictured smoking cannabis at a party. This was particularly embarrassing, as her father, Richard, had proudly proclaimed her and her older brother, Jack, to be drug-free. For her part, Chloe says there was no issue about the drug-taking. Indeed, she has stated that there is nothing wrong with smoking cannabis with friends. But she conceded the drink-driving offence \'certainly was\' a mistake. Not surprisingly, media stories about Chloe\'s misbehaviour led to her being compared to other celebrity children getting into trouble at the time.'
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