When Ellie Goulding isn't on stage or in the recording studio, she seems to be spending her time in the gym.
Ellie Goulding (33, "Burn") is fit. Unmistakably fit, as her latest picture on Instagram shows. In the mirror selfie, the singer presents her big biceps and her tight six-pack. Why is she doing this? No way to show off. "Nothing I do in the gym is for vanity," she writes about the photo. Instead, she wants to show her fans where her "ultimate solution" has led. Because "with all the things that I have overcome," writes Goulding, the focus was always on "staying fit and strong".
The characters would have been very different in her childhood, explains the singer. She was bad at sport and "so severely asthmatic" that she "could hardly laugh without a coughing attack". But the singer had made an effort and "used every willpower available to me" to work on it. Success can no longer be dismissed out of hand today.