Chloe Lopez marked her 40th birthday on the cover of FHM.
The routine behind it involves heavy weights, Muay Thai and, at its most extreme, six days without food.
The British content creator, originally from Hertfordshire, says she has never felt better.
“I feel better at 40 than I ever have,” she said, as reported by Creatorzine.
“My body looks better than it did in my 20s, and I feel sexier and more confident than ever.
“I think as you get older, you become more comfortable in your own skin and stop worrying so much about what other people think.”
The shoot was for FHM’s Australian edition, and the timing could hardly have been better.
“I ended up doing the Australian cover of FHM literally a week before my birthday, so it felt like a really big achievement,” said Chloe, who has 339,000 Instagram followers at @chloejadelopez.
“I’m keeping it forever.”
A gym in every country
Chloe has spent five years moving between Spain, Mexico and several countries across South-East Asia.
The postcode changes. The training doesn’t.
She lifts weights three or four times a week and gives one session a week to Muay Thai or jiu-jitsu.
“I always try to find a gym as soon as I land somewhere, and somewhere I can get healthy food,” she said.
“I’ve learned Muay Thai and jiu-jitsu and other forms of martial arts, which I try to practice once a week. I’ll go all out with that.”
One meal a day and a full moon reset
Her eating habits are where most readers will stop and read the sentence again.
Chloe usually eats once a day, late, and fasts on purpose. Some months she times it to the full moon.
“I try to have a reset every month,” she said.
“My longest fast was six days. But I think a 48-hour fast every couple of weeks is great.
“I always try not to eat and then I usually have one meal, making sure it’s a balanced plate of carbs, fats and protein. It’s all stuff that I’ve learned and tried and tested along the way.”
How the fasting started
None of it began as a wellness choice.
The pandemic took her receptionist job and her home in one go.
She left the UK with £100 and a rucksack, spent her first night in Spain sleeping on a beach, then sofa-surfed with strangers. Some days she couldn’t afford to eat.
“Sometimes there were four or five days where I didn’t eat,” she said.
“But because of that, I started noticing the benefits of fasting. I found that all my struggles were leading me on another path.”
What started as going without became a habit she now keeps by choice.
What the health advice says
Chloe credits fasting with making her feel better. Its effects differ between people, though, and longer fasts carry real risks.
Fasting means going without food for anything from a few hours to several days.
Some studies suggest intermittent fasting may help with weight management and blood sugar control.
Prolonged fasting can cause dehydration, dizziness, headaches, fatigue and low blood sugar, and can lead to nutrient deficiencies and muscle loss.
Health guidance generally advises against fasting for children, pregnant or breastfeeding women, and anyone with a current or previous eating disorder.
People with diabetes, those on certain medications and anyone with an underlying medical condition should speak to a doctor first.
Experts warn that multi-day fasts like Chloe’s six-day stint carry greater risks and should only happen under medical supervision.
Fifteen years on the front desk
Before all this, Chloe spent 15 years as a receptionist in commercial property and drank heavily at weekends to escape how unhappy she felt.
Abroad, she stopped completely for three years while saving money.
“My drinking was something that had to change so I made that decision and stuck to it,” she said.
“The first week to the first month of not drinking is the hardest. Once you get past that point, it gets a lot easier.”
She drinks again now. Occasionally, and never to get drunk.
“After three years, I introduced a drink again. What I realised is that my relationship with alcohol changed because I had been sober for so long.
Now I use it as a time for celebration. I struggle to finish a second glass of wine.”
From supermarket stunts to a 16-track album
Longtime followers know Chloe for something other than deadlifts.
She first made headlines with videos in which she pretended to take off her knickers in public, including in supermarkets and beach bars.
The clips built the audience that later fed an OnlyFans business, which she claims earned her as much as £62,000 in a single month.
She has since stepped away from that content to focus on music, fitness and encouraging others to change their lives.
Her new project, Capillion, has released a 16-track album, No Risk, No Story, inspired by her journey from homelessness to online success.
As album titles go, it’s hard to argue with.
Why It Matters
Chloe’s move is a familiar one. Creators who built audiences on shock clips and adult platforms increasingly try to carry that following into something longer-lasting, usually wellness, music or both.
The audience is the asset. Whether it follows is another matter.
Her fasting content also sits in a corner of the internet where extreme diet claims spread fast and the medical caveats rarely travel with them.
Women over 40 are building sizeable followings on fitness and confidence content that skips the usual apologies about age, and Chloe is pitching herself squarely into that market.
She admits her life is still far from conventional, and she has no plans to stop moving.
“I love to travel, I love having freedom,” she said.
“A rich life to me is being able to travel, be free and swim in the sea. It looks different for everyone, but for me that is it.”
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