Mel C has banned everyone from talking about diets in her house.
The former Spice Girl - who battled with an eating disorder during her time in the band - doesn't allow anyone to discuss food in a negative light when they're around her 10-year-old daughter Scarlet because she doesn't want her to grow up and develop an unhealthy obsession with exercise and restrict her calorie intake.
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Speaking in the November 2019 Mind Issue of Women's Health, Mel - who was known as Sporty Spice - said: "I didn't ever allow people to speak about diets in our house. Scarlet's 10 years old now and I'm starting to notice that she's more conscious of the way she looks, but I think one of the positives of having gone through having an eating disorder is that I'm very conscious of how I speak around her. That positive language - it's habit now."
The 45-year-old singer has been very open about her struggles with clinical depression in the past and she believes it reached the pinnacle point in the 2000s.
She explained: "It all came tumbling down around the millennium when I was in LA with my family and I started to feel very low.
"I was struggling to get out of bed, I was binge eating, I couldn't stop crying. I literally felt like I was going mad, so I came back to the UK and saw my GP, and the first thing he diagnosed me with was depression.
"It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I was like, oh my gosh, it's something, it has a name and it can be treated. That was day one of my recovery."
Mel still has weekly therapy sessions now and swears by them.
She said: "I know not everyone has the luxury to be able to do that, but it's really important for me, even if sometimes I dread it. Often I'm not looking forward to it, but I can bitch and moan without judgement. It's someone who you're not going to offend. Therapy is bloody great - I recommend it to everybody."
Read the full Mel C interview in the November 2019 Mind Issue of Women's Health, on sale from the 1st October 2019. Also available as a digital edition.
