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I was told to keep eating to save my life, says Cheryl Cole
Doctors ordered Cheryl Cole to stop exercising and put on weight after the health scare that almost killed her.
And the svelte star – who was given just 24 hours to live at one point after contracting malaria last year – had no choice but to obey them to beat the illness.
‘I just ate everything,’ she said.
Miss Cole, 28, revealed how being ill had changed her priorities. ‘It opened my eyes to health and things I hadn’t focused on before,’ she said.
‘It’s now less about work, work, work and more about making time to chill and be with my friends and family.’
Miss Cole, who caught malaria while on holiday in Tanzania with American dancer Derek Hough in June 2010, is currently single after a reconciliation with her former husband, footballer Ashley Cole, 30, petered out.
After her recovery from the disease, she went to America as one of the judges on The X Factor U.S.A.
At the press launch, she showed off her fuller figure, but was then fired after just four days of filming on the show.
Since then, she has returned to her trimmer self and has kept a relatively low profile, splitting her time between the U.S. and UK working on her music.
She also had a cameo role in the film What To Expect When You’re Expecting with Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez.
Speaking in the new issue of InStyle magazine, which goes on sale on Thursday, the Girls Aloud singer also revealed she had once enjoyed a drink with Amy Winehouse, who died in July.
But she admitted: ‘I’m awful at drinking. Don’t get us [sic] wrong, though – I like a drink if it’s a night out.’
Miss Cole also told of her fascination with tattoos, saying that ‘to me, it’s art’.
She has at least seven tattoos.
To read the full feature, see the December issue of InStyle on sale Thursday or visit InStyle.co.uk.
Simon Cowell: ‘I thought Cheryl Cole was hungover when she had malaria’
X Factor boss Simon Cowell thought Cheryl Cole had a hangover when she came down with malaria.
The music mogul admits the Geordie singer was seriously ill when she got the illness but at first he just thought she had just drunk too much the night before.
He told OK! magazine: ‘When she first fell ill we thought it was a hangover, she even said that to us. But, of course, it was far more serious than that.’
The 50 year-old knew Cole, 27, was recovering when he started getting ‘grumpy’ texts from her.
He said: ‘When we got the all-clear and she started to text me, I knew she was on the mend. Then the texts got increasingly grumpy and I knew she was getting back to her old self.’
Cheryl Cole is to release a survival single to celebrate beating the deadly condition malaria.
Geordie beauty Cheryl Cole is to show she’s still a fighter by releasing a survival comeback tune.
The pop star’s latest is said to be named Promise This because of its lyrics, which relate to her malaria scare. According to reports, the stunner will perform the new single on X Factor in October and will be filming the video in LA any day now.
A source has said: “Cheryl’s comeback single is called Promise This.
“It was actually written months ago and although it’s not directly talking about her illness there is a strange lyrical twist that ironically relates to her recent near-death experience.”
Cheryl Cole X Factor pics from just before malaria collapse
This is the horrifying moment Cheryl Cole collapses after being struck down by deadly malaria.
The 27-year-old slumps on to The X Factor desk during auditions hours before she was rushed to intensive care with the disease that nearly killed her.
The dramatic footage will be screened for the first time when the show returns tonight.
A source said: “We were very worried for her.” It started with a bit of banter about having a hangover…
But after slumping on to a chair, pale and exhausted, it quickly became apparent to her X Factor colleagues that all was not well with Cheryl Cole.
And within hours of this picture being taken, the 27-year-old talent show judge was being rushed to hospital suffering from a deadly strain of malaria.
Signs the Girls Aloud star was coming down with something began when she collapsed at the judges’ desk during auditions in Cardiff.
Resting her head on her hands, she is heard to mutter: “I don’t feel well at all.”
X Factor to broadcast moment Cheryl collapsed with malaria
Miss Cole contracted malaria after going to Tanzania on holiday in June but it was only discovered after she collapsed while working on the new series, the seventh in the show’s run.
Millions of viewers will see the moment she lies down on a row of chairs and complains of not feeling well.
The footage will show her saying: “I am definitely coming down with something.”
In a video to fans ahead of the new series, Miss Cole said she was “absolutely gutted that I missed the last auditions and boot camp but I’m really excited to see what Simon, Louis and Nicole have chosen”.
It has also been reported that Miss Cole, 27, is likely to have completed her divorce from the footballer Ashley Cole by the time she appears on screen.
Her malaria kept her out of filming for the entire stages of the auditions and boot camp. At one point she was said to be close to death with the condition.
Cheryl Cole has spoken publicly for the first time since being struck down with malaria.
The Girls Aloud singer broke her silence at the launch of this year’s The X Factor. Cheryl, 27, was in hospital for three weeks after contracting the bug on holiday.
She said: “I’m gutted I missed the last audition and boot camp stage. But I’m looking forward to seeing what Simon, Louis and Nicole have chosen.
“I can’t wait to get my category so I can get my teeth into it. What I’m looking for is a little diamond of an act you can polish.”
Cheryl Cole is to head to Africa in a bid to help in the fight against malaria.
Fight For This Love singer Cheryl Cole is currently recovering after her own battle with malaria, but the beauty is determined to use her experience to help others.
The star will visit the poverty-stricken areas of Africa to raise awareness of the illness, which causes 3,000 preventable deaths in the continent every day.
According to reports, the trip will be taken next year after she finishes the latest series of X Factor and during the trip the 27-year-old will meet the families of malaria victims, promote anti-malaria mosquito nets and tour remote hospitals.
Already one for charity work, last year Cheryl helped to raise money to buy over 500,000 nets by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.
