Rapid rise sees 362k Brits fined for EU speeding
ALESHA Dixon admits she loves her body more now she’s reached 40 than she did during her early 20s.
The Britain’s Got Talent judge says: “The great thing about getting older is you just care less. I’m the most comfortable I’ve ever been.”
After having her daughter Azura in 2013 she panicked that she’d lost her shapely boobs – but today she feels more womanly than ever.
Alesha, now pregnant with her second child, said: “It’s so interesting how people fear getting older. I turned 40 last October. I can honestly say I much prefer my body now to when I was in my 20s.
“After I had my daughter, I went through a phase where I was like, ‘ Where have the boobs gone?’ Everything had changed.
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“Then I came out the other side and had so much respect for my body. I felt more womanly.”
Alesha, who wed dancer Azuka Ononye, 38, in 2017, added: “I breastfed for a year and it took me a good year for my boobs to have any kind of curve on them. They just disappeared. I’ve still got stretch marks. But I love how incredible the body is – it can repair and heal itself so beautifully.”
The singer, Strictly winner and talent judge is concerned that girls in their 20s are now resorting to Botox and fillers.
“I’ve never had Botox, never had anything. But I’m looking at girls in their early 20s getting Botox and lip fillers. What is going on?
“I hope I can raise Azura to be comfortable in her skin, to accept who she is.”
Alesha always looks glam on TV but says she’s far less polished at the school gates.
Speaking on her podcast, Wear It’s At, made with online styling service Stitch Fix, she said: “I think I’m a disappointment when I show up, because they think, ‘She’s off the telly, she’s going to look really good.’ And I turn up in a jumper and some leggings. The older I get, the less I try.”
I went through a phase of, like, where have the boobs gone? ALESHA DIXON ON HER POST-PREGNANCY FIGURE
A RECORD 362,000 British drivers have been hit with speeding tickets from across Europe since January.
That is up from 237,172 for the whole of last year and just 80,598 in 2017. French police have already made 239,746 requests to Britain for vehicle owners’ details this year. The DVLA figures have prompted speculation foreign police forces fear Brexit will stop them recovering speeding fines, typically £60, after we leave the EU.
But motoring experts believe the dramatic rise is mainly due to the DVLA providing driver details for the first time.
The RAC says numbers have also rocketed because private companies can now carry out speed enforcement in France.
And police there are using a fleet of several hundred unmarked cars which are reported to catch 1.5million speeding drivers a year.
Britain signed up to an EU directive in 2017 that gives governments automatic access to vehicle ownership records held by other countries. RAC spokesman Simon Williams said: “UK drivers need to have their wits about them when they go abroad. They perhaps are unaware that fines can now follow them home back to the UK.
“But it is incumbent on them to obey the speed limits elsewhere in Europe or face the consequences.”