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Lady Isabella Hervey Reinvents Herself in Algarve as Fitness Instructor and Single Mother

Cycling restored her confidence, driving her transformation into a fitness entrepreneur in Portugal.

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Overview

  • She tells HELLO! Magazine she feels calmer and more at peace than ever since her marriage to Christophe de Pauw ended in 2023.
  • The former TV star holds personal-trainer and sports-nutrition credentials and is planning boot camps, social-media videos and magazine features as part of her fitness empire vision.
  • Cycling played a pivotal role in boosting her self-esteem and gave her the clarity to leave an unhappy marriage.
  • She balances her new career with raising her three children—Victor, nine, Patrick, seven, and India, six—on Portugal’s Algarve coast.
  • She draws strength from early hardships, including her father’s death on her third birthday, her half-brother’s suicide and a past battle with bulimia, to fuel her new path.