The “ZDF TV Garden” star followed a strict diet. As a result, the presenter’s marriage was on the rocks.
In the spring of this year, Andrea Kiewel‘s patience was over. During preparations for the new “TV Garden” season, the presenter realized that none of the previously selected TV outfits fit her anymore. She describes the situation in an unusually direct way to RTL: “At the beginning of the TV garden season it’s always like this: I put things on with my stylist Jutta for the first four or five shows – and this time nothing fit. Everything was too small and I thought: What the f***!”
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Kiewel, who was considered a powerful swimmer in her youth and was part of the GDR youth national swimming team, looks back on a sporting past. She even worked as a lifeguard on Usedom until the summer of 1990, before her TV career really took off. Nevertheless, she says self-critically today: “When God handed out fatness and fatness, I was probably in the front row. Nothing is easier for me than gaining weight.”
Andrea Kiewel looked noticeably slimmer at a gala in October.
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Ventilate emotions
The presenter has been commuting between Germany and Israel for years, where she lives in Tel Aviv with her partner – a former elite soldier in the Israeli army. But that was exactly where the phase began that drastically changed her weight. After the Hamas terrorist attack in October 2023, food became a kind of emotional outlet for her. Kiewel says openly: “I honestly admit that I had a choice after October 7, 2023: Do I start smoking excessively or do I start eating sweets? I chose the latter.”
However, it didn’t just stop at sweets. “In addition to the sweets, there were also at least five warm meals a day,” she says. The result: She gained around 15 kilograms within just six months. Then she radically changed her habits: “No dinner. I’m becoming a sociopath. I’m becoming obnoxious. No sugar. And exercise every day. I think for four weeks my husband, who I’m not married to, was thinking about divorce. But 15 kilos are gone – and I think I’m great!”
The fans admire her discipline and her husband? Luckily he stayed with her too.
