The chart topping star has been candid about her health in the past.

Kim Wilde has suffered serious health issues (Image: ITV)

Chart topping singer Kim Wilde has admitted she wasn’t always very good at “looking after” herself as she detailed her previous health struggles, which motivated her to take care of her wellbeing. During an unearthed appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour from January 2025, the mum-of-two confessed: “My 60s are turning out to be one of the most glorious decades of my life for all kinds of reasons. Personal reasons (and) physical reasons.

“I’m more aware of my health. I’m very good at looking after myself and aware I probably wasn’t even in my 50s…You’re more aware that…maybe time is not infinite, and you want to make the years that are to come really count. I want to be walking upright if I can be. I want to be healthy. I want to get out of bed, okay. I don’t want to live with pain,” she said.

“I know about all of that because I’ve experienced it in the last few years and overcome it through just looking after myself…and I’m getting all the benefit of it,” the star acknowledged.

Kim previously revealed exclusively to Express.co.uk in July 2024 she had spent four months struggling with back issues in 2023.

The Kids in America singer revealed she had to work to get her mobility back after suffering with her spine. “I feel lucky just to be able to get out of bed in the morning,” she said.

“I’m a very grateful person. There’s lots of things, lots of reasons why I say that because for four months last year, I couldn’t do that, and now I’m fit as a fiddle.

Kim Wilde opened up about her health during an appearance on Woman’s Hour (Image: BBC Woman’s Hour)

“But I’ve been down a bad back situation where I’ve had to work very hard to get my mobility back. So I’m very so grateful for all of it – getting out of bed, turning up and hanging up with Nick Kershaw and Carol Decker [at a festival appearance].

“Or turning up and seeing who wants to come to a Kim Wilde show. Seeing the lovely faces of people in the audience. Sometimes it almost kind of breaks your heart…the way that people react to me is really overwhelming a lot of the time these days,” she admitted.

Kim has been in the public eye since she first stormed the charts in 1981 with the iconic track Kids In America. However, despite her success she had put music behind her for many years admitting she was “bored of herself”.

She made the surprising move into horticulture and became a popular gardening expert who regularly appeared on TV before returning to performing in recent years.