By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 1:53 AM on 25th February 2012


Her weight has been an issue in the past, particularly when she was hit by a potentially fatal bout of malaria and the collapse of her marriage to Ashley Cole.

But Cheryl Cole, 29, has appeared a lot healthier in recent times.

However, she looked a little thin during an appearance at Westfield in Shepherd's Bush, west London.

Kiss me quick: Cheryl Cole looked thin in the face during an appearance at Westfield in Shepherd's Bush today

Kiss me quick: Cheryl Cole looked thin in the face during an appearance at Westfield in Shepherd's Bush today

Face it... The singer's weight plummeted when she was hit by a bout of malaria in 2010

As she greeted fans at the shopping mall, she looked gaunt.

Cheryl wore a smart, chic outfit comprised a pair of red jeans, a white biker jacket, a patterned top and a pair of black heels with white polka dots.

The singer was at the huge shopping centre to launch her shoe collection at Stylist Picks. 

She happily greeted fans and signed autographs at the online store's pop-up shop.

Cheryl appeared happy and relaxed, just as she did yesterday during an appearance at the Prince's Trust Invest in Futures dinner at the Savoy Hotel in central London.

Fan-friendly: Cheryl signed autographs during her appearance at Westfield where she launched her shoe collection

Fan-friendly: Cheryl signed autographs during her appearance at Westfield where she launched her shoe collection

Nice to see you! The former Girls Aloud star appeared happy and relaxed during the appearance

Accessibly priced, the collection has been overseen by Cole at every stage - from concept, to design, to packaging.

Stylistpick's chief creative officer Juliet Warkentin said: We are thrilled to be working with Cheryl.

'Cheryl is the style icon and is amazingly warm, a quality that has made her the nation's favourite.

'We believe that the launch will have a huge fashion impact; establishing fashion's greatest influencer as a major force in fashion design and further democratising fashion.'

Cheryl's first collection of eight pairs of heels and boots was also well received by her fans - but encountered a couple of problems elsewhere.

Some pairs of her signature shoe, Your Royal Hotness, were found to be defective, with the stitching on the heel coming undone.

Another pair, the Freak Le Chic boot, looked very, very similar to a pair from Crisian & McCaffrey's Chastity boots from their Autumn Winter 2011 collection.

 

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Not gaunt at all! Beautiful woman

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Cheryl looks healthy and happy to me plus her hair really suits her in that style.

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Cheryl Cole the famous mime artist?

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Gaunt but would still get it

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And? Or should I say, who cares?

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Cant believe this non-story, yesterday she looked fantastic in a flowing white dress but today she looks unhappy and gaunt!! smiling in every picture, give me a job at the DM please cos i can write any tosh you like. Cheryl you look great and I'm sure you know it.

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She looks fine. tut !

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she's a beauty you can't deny that.

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She looks rough

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you know what would help. you stop putting stamps on people fat, thin when in this case cheryl gained a stone you wrote an article about her fat ankles and now you say she has lost some weight so now she is to thin. make up your mind. the first 3 pics are very misleading because she is sucking her cheeks in and making other weird, cute, anoying (i don't really care so choose for yourself) faces, the fourth pic you see her face and she looks perfectly healthy and happy. so just unless she is on the brink of dying because she is underweight or she can't walk trough a door anymore find something else to write about.

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