Huddersfield Daily Examiner

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MOST people will remember Myleene Klass from her famous white bikini shower scene on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! So it may come as a surprise that she’s not racing to get back into that kind of shape again, after giving birth to her third child.

“I’ve got two daughters, and the last thing I want to do is let them see me standing up and down on the scales when I’ve just given birth to a baby,” says Myleene.

“The last thing I’m going to do is berate myself, and beat my body up after it’s just done something amazing – and is continuing to sustain life.”

The model and presenter, and her partner Simon Motson, welcomed their first child together, Apollo, in August. Myleene is already mum to daughters Ava, 12, and Hero, 8, with ex-husband Graham Quinn, while Simon is also dad to a son and daughter of the same ages.

“It’s funny because I’m known for putting on bikinis, but who’s to say there’s a prototype for how people should look in a bikini? I’ll wear a bikini at whatever size I am,” she says.

The 41-year-old says she gained five stone during her pregnancy with Apollo – more than her previous two. “It sounds ludicrous when I say it out loud! I’ve lost just over three, I’m sure the other two will melt away when I finally stop breastfeed­ing.

“I’m not trying to shift it yet. It’s almost an impossibil­ity because my body wants to hold on to whatever it can to make sure the baby is fed.”

She isn’t feeling pressure to lose weight as a person in the public eye, that’s for sure – “Look at people like (American singer) Lizzo, who literally do stick two fingers up to the establishm­ent and celebrate what their bodies are capable of” – but says her body definitely feels different after having a baby in her 40s, compared to the first two times around.

Having a newborn to care for is also a “massively different experience” at 41, she says. “I’m more relaxed for sure. When you have a

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