Is that a double chin? Cheryl Cole was looking noticeably fuller-faced at the Prince's Trust Awards last weekWith a fuller figure on display, it seems that Cheryl Cole is finally back to health months after beating the potentially lethal disease malaria.
The 27-year-old star, who is poised to join Simon Cowell on the American X Factor within weeks, flaunted her size 8 figure as she turned up to The Prince’ s Trust Celebrate Success Awards in London last week.
The petite brunette looked fit and well in a floor-length peach-coloured Sass & Bide gown as she joined Prince Charles at the event, a marked difference from her tiny figure last year.
The singer has been in Los Angeles recording new music for the past month – and insisted that she had not been sucked in by any of the latest fitness fads in Hollywood.
In refreshingly honest comments, Mrs Cole told Glamour magazine: ‘I don’t have a regime that I regularly stick to. I honestly don’t have one.
‘But the TV out here is non-stop with adverts for the latest health craze.
'People give themselves too much of a hard time with stuff like that – just do it if you want to.’
Filling out: Cheryl is now looking much healthier compared to her skinny appearance at the Glamour Awards last June (right)
The star told how she is now planning to cut back on her work in a bid to look after herself after being told by doctors that she could die from her bout of malaria last summer.
She added: ‘I really plan to not plan. I’ve had my life mapped out for the best part of 10 years, so for now I just want to enjoy myself and live in the moment.’
Mrs Cole is now waiting to see if she will join Cowell, 51, on X Factor USA, and is a favourite to join him on the talent show, alongside music executive LA Reid and Paula Abdul, with chart sensation Nicki Minaj also in the frame for a judging role.
In the interview with Glamour, she also delivered a defiant retort to the American TV executives who hinted that she should lose her regional brogue, and even suggested elocution lessons, if she wanted a job as a judge on The X Factor USA.
Producers have expressed their concern that viewers would struggle to understand her Geordie accent on the show, which is due to be screened this autumn.
She said: 'My accent's going nowhere. Absolutely nowhere.
Svengali Simon Cowell has said he wants her on board but show executives have expressed concerns that the singer does not have a high enough profile in the U.S - and there has also been some anguish about whether viewers will understand her accent.
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