It’s only been 12 weeks since Abbey Clancy welcomed her second child, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at her trim figure.
In a photoshoot for Women’s Health, the British model showed off her post-baby body – and revealed how she’s snapped back into shape since giving birth to Liberty Rose.
“I don’t diet, but with a four-year-old [Sophia], a new baby and no nannies, neither do I sit still,” she said.
The 29-year-old, who is married to footballer Peter Crouch, hit back at stories critical of her fast return to a thin figure.
“I don’t like those stories when it’s put in a negative light – like I’m starving myself. I live with a professional athlete. We eat healthy meals, home-cooked fresh food,” she explained.
“My mum had four children and each time she had a baby, she was back to normal within weeks. So genetics play a part.”
And Abbey insisted her body had been changed by the births, admitting: “I’m nine stone now. Your shape just changes. My boobs went. My belly button’s a bit saggier. But I’ve got two beautiful babies, so I’m not that concerned.”
Abbey and Peter have been in a relationship for nine years. After welcoming Sophia in 2011, they couple tied the knot. Liberty Rose arrived in June.
“We’d like four, including a boy,” said Abbey. “I felt so sorry for Pete when we were on holiday because there was a Chelsea Football Academy and Barbie World. And all the dads were playing football with the little boys and Pete was getting glitter put on his eyes in Barbie World.
“I was like, ‘We need a boy’.”
Abbey is keen to treasure her time with baby Liberty. She said: “It’s hard, it’s tiring – we don’t have any help. We do alternate night feeds. Pete’s amazing. I think it’s such a short period of time you’ve got with babies and it goes so quick.”
The model won Strictly Come Dancing in 2013, impressing the judges and winning the hearts of the public.
She recalled: “It’s intense. I think it’s quite a fairytale. Especially for the woman. I don’t know… For the man too! Because the men are used to their normal life, then they’ve got these sexy dancers flopping round them.”
As for the Curse of Strictly? “I don’t think that happens unless you’re unhappy in your relationship. Because it didn’t cross my mind,” she explained.
The full interview appears in the November 2015 issue of Women’s Health, on sale on October 8.
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