The 55-year-old has shared her health journey on Instagram and recreated a glossy magazine shoot she did to document her weight loss 17 years ago.
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Ricki slipped into the same red designer swimsuit she wore on that occasion at home and accentuated her toned legs by wearing a pair of teetering black heels.
The stage star rightly looked proud of her achievements as she smiled into her phone for the mirror selfie.
The only distinguishable difference between then and now was her hair colour with Ricki now a natural grey rather than brunette.
She wrote: “I held onto this #NormaKamali one-piece for all these years wondering if I would ever be able to wear it again.”
Her followers were, for the most part, delighted for her.
One commented: “Yay!!! Healthy and fab!!!!!!”
Another said: “So beautiful thru all the ages & stages ! You’re such an inspiration.”
A third wrote: “Looking better than ever!”
However, others weren’t keen on the messaging, primarily the tag line from the 2007 magazine cover, which read: “From size 24 to 4 without surgery!”
One person said: “I find this post disappointing.”
A second shared: “But are you healthy you can be any size but is your body healthy is your brain healthy???? What do you eat? If its low fat crap then no thanks.”
The two stone weight loss was four months in the making.
Ricki explained how she and husband Ross Burningham, 57, who she married in 2022, made a pledge to improve their health back in October.
She said: “Together we have each lost 30+ lbs. I really want to share, because we did this without relying on a pharmaceutical. (Not that there is anything wrong with that.).
“But neither of us were pre diabetic and both of us felt like we wanted to at least try and do it on our own.
“Being 55 and in perimenopause, I was a bit worried, that my body would not drop the lbs like it had in the past.
“I am so so proud of us. I feel amazing. I feel strong. I will go in depth in another post of what I did exactly, but suffice to say this is the healthiest way I’ve lost weight in all of my years.”
Two years ago, Ricki tied the knot with Ross in an intimate ceremony.
It came five years after the death of her ex-husband Christian Evans, who she was married to from 2012 until 2015.
Two years after their split, Christian, who battled bipolar disorder, died by suicide.
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