Rylan Clark has bravely opened up about his physique hang-ups and insecurities.
The TV icon, 35, has spoken candidly about his mental health in current months, particularly how he deteriorated and struggled with suicidal ideas following his divorce from Dan Neal.
While filming for his new journey TV present alongside Judge Rinder, 45, Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour, the previous Celebrity Big Brother winner visited Florence in Italy.
It was there that the hilarious duo marvelled at among the most interesting Renaissance artwork and sculptures, such as Michelangelo’s buff David statue.
However, this exercise prompted discussions on the masculine picture and what it means to be ‘perfect’.
Speaking frankly to cameras, X Factor alum Rylan defined: ‘Being in Florence and seeing art like David makes me sit there and go, “Have I inherited from generations gone by and been passed down to that that’s what I’m supposed to look like?”
‘That’s what I need, that’s what I’ve at all times needed to look like.
‘But I feel like I’m striving for a marble physique.’
‘Some people can get that, but that’s a full-time job,’ added the star, earlier than laughing: ‘Babe, I’ve received The One Show at 7!’
Later within the episode, Rylan and Rob go to a life-drawing class to ‘understand how empowering nude portraiture is.’
But, not like the unique Grand Tourists of the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, these two modelled in bondage gear.
They received to know a neighborhood artist named Sofia ‘who explores hang-ups with nudity by painting bound bodies.’
‘It’s in regards to the evaluation of various issues which might be tying us up,’ she defined forward of the session.
‘And like why not show it and make it beautiful?’
‘You’re reclaiming all of the issues that stop you from being free,’ Rob chimed in, to which the artist agreed.
The barrister-turned-TV persona was keen to take his garments off and pose for the portrait, stripping down to his underwear and exhibiting off his toned physique.
Rylan, however, was rather more reserved.
‘I’m gonna allow you to do that,’ Rylan advised him. ‘You’re alright with all of that.
‘I don’t assume I may do what you’re doing proper now.’
When requested by one other mannequin why he didn’t really feel in a position to naked all, Rylan acknowledged: ‘I just don’t really feel assured sufficient.’
‘I’ll most likely study extra about Renaissance artwork by doing it, however really, I feel it’s seeing the Renaissance artwork and seeing David and stuff like that that makes me go, effectively, “I haven’t got that.”
‘I don’t like my arms, I don’t like my legs, I don’t like my physique.’
Rob then reassured Rylan that he didn’t have to take his garments off if he didn’t need to.
Rylan excused himself, taking a second to speak to the cameras by himself as he mirrored.
‘I just feel like, in my past, I’ve been made to really feel fairly s**t by individuals about every part,’ he confessed.
‘I feel like I’ve let Rob down if I don’t do it. I’ve simply gotta not care.’
As footage confirmed Rob’s chiselled determine, Rob defined that he goes to the gymnasium every day to support with his psychological well being and to ‘feel good’ in himself.
After giving himself a pep speak, Rylan ultimately felt assured sufficient to strut out in his underpants, with a bit of blue satin cloth draped over half of his physique.
As he did so, Rob and artist Sofia hailed him as ‘a Roman sculpture’.
The painter then labored her magic, with the TV stars leaning towards each other whereas she replicated their likeness on a canvas.
‘I literally feel like I’m having a breakdown,’ Rylan declared when requested how he was feeling.
‘I have never felt so exposed in my life.’
Sofia assured him that it was ‘a bonding moment’, after which Rylan clarified some misconceptions followers may need about him.
‘I think people would think that I think I look good, and I think this and I think that when, actually, it’s the exact opposite. I don’t look good-looking.
‘I just feel like I’ve received to be excellent and I’m not.’
Fortunately, it appears the portray was in a position to swap his mindset, as he gasped as soon as the completed product was unveiled, describing it as ‘beautiful’.
‘That’s unbelievable, I’ve no phrases,’ Rylan mentioned, joking that he appears like Jesus.
‘When I see that painting, I think, well, if that’s how Sofia sees me then I haven’t received that a lot to fear about.’
‘That’s how everyone sees you,’ Rob mentioned sweetly.
Their journey collection has been stuffed with hilarious ups and tear-jerking downs throughout three episodes.
Most notably, Rylan left Rob in floods of tears when he recalled wanting to ‘end it all’.
Rob struggled to maintain it collectively as the Eurovision host detailed the influence of his marriage breakdown, and in addition spoke about his personal ache from struggling an unrequited love.
Stream all episodes of Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour now on BBC iPlayer.
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