Linda de Mol can on the leg pressmachine in the gym, you can push away no less than eighty kilos, the 60-year-old presenter says in her magazine. “It just seriously makes me more hungry.”
Linda de Mol has struggled with her weight all her life. All those millions of euros in the bank and your own personal trainer cannot prevent fat rolls from popping up when you eat too much. And just like all ordinary mortals, the presenter has to exercise to maintain her weight, but she finds that difficult…
Eighty kilos
Linda has had a gym created in the attic of her castle in Crailo. “Because if I could exercise ‘at home’ and had really good equipment, I would climb those attic stairs whistling at least three times a week, or so I thought. Well, really not,” says the Miljoenenjacht presenter in the LINDA.
She still has a ‘love-hate relationship’ with sports, she says. “Three months ago, I was easily pressing 80 kilos on the leg press (really) and wouldn’t hesitate to do 50 sit-ups,” she reveals.
Average
The leg press is a strength training where you push weight away from you with your legs. Linda can do that with eighty kilos, which is average to above average for a 60-year-old woman, depending on the performance and the number of repetitions. “The problem is not that I can’t do it, but that there are periods when I don’t have the energy to want to do it.”
Moreover, such a leg press makes Linda very hungry. “It seriously makes me more hungry and you can’t satisfy it with a ‘nice bowl of radish’.”
Ozempic
And Linda is a gourmet and a glutton. “I think if you put me on an Ozempic drip with my current mindset, I could come up with another list of things I crave.”
The SBS 6 star will undoubtedly have already tried it — the pharmacy at the Media Park is about the only one where Ozempic is widely stocked. But of course exercise remains important. “I’ll start on Monday. Not next Monday, because then I have dinner,” she jokes.