Botox. Fillers. HRT. And a soaring libido... reveals the formula behind the figure that cynics said simply didn't add up

This week, broadcaster Carol Vorderman stepped out in London wearing a pair of skin-tight black jeggings and a figure-hugging, flame-hued top, and — good heavens — the nation’s eyes veritably popped.

A torrent of bottoms-and-boobs puns and double entendres rained down. Carol Phoar-derman! Carol Vordashian!

Carol’s orange Karen Millen jersey was tucked in, emphasising her hand-span waist, splendid bosom and a bottom like a couple of bowling balls wrapped in Lycra.

With the flurry of lascivious comment came fevered speculation: has her bosom been surgically enhanced? Has her gravity-defying derriere been lifted? Surely a woman approaching her 60s couldn’t look that bootylicious without a little judicious help from a cosmetic surgeon?

Carol’s award-winning rump — it won her the Rear of the Year title in both 2011 and 2014 — has long been the subject of admiration, gossip and conjecture. Why, it even has its own (unofficial) Twitter account (Carol Vorderman’s Ass).

This week it was likened to that of the pneumatic TV personality Kim Kardashian, whose 39-year-old rear invariably looks as though it’s been inflated, almost to bursting point.

‘I’m flattered,’ says 58-year-old Carol. ‘Who wouldn’t want to be compared with someone 20 years younger?’

Carol’s smooth and peachy face has also been the subject of supposition and rumour. Has it been plumped, filled or Botoxed? And what about the hair! Could that flowing mane really be natural?

But quell the speculation, readers! For today we can reveal exclusively what Carol has had done. And what she has left undone. We can disclose the real reasons the woman who won national acclaim as the Cambridge engineering graduate who co-hosted Countdown progressed from swot to siren.

She insists her hour-glass figure is the result of a combination of genes, exercise and … wait for it, HRT.

We give you a step-by-step guide — and let me assure you, Carol takes at least 15,000 steps a day — to getting a bottom as gloriously spherical as hers.

We find out how her face has remained unrumpled by time. And we even discover the secrets of her lingerie drawer.





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