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Frankie Bridge recalls feeling ‘shame’ over sexy performances with The Saturdays after giving birth
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Frankie Bridge has opened up about the ‘shame’ she felt for performing sexy dance moves with The Saturdays after giving birth.
The former pop star discussed going through body image issues while pregnant on Thursday’s episode of Loose Women.
Frankie welcomed son Parker on October 18, 2015, while her second son Carter was born on August 15, 2015.
Sharing her experience, the singer explained: ‘My depression was worse during my pregnancy because I found coming from someone who really restricted my eating and really controlled my food and my weight and being in the public eye, that sudden feeling of being so out of control of my body was really hard for me.’
The 32-year-old revealed how she gained four stone but was still having to go on-stage with her bandmates Rochelle Humes, Vanessa White, Mollie King and Una Healy who ‘looked the same as before’.
She continued: ‘Publicly people were seeing me be different and commenting on that.
‘I actually felt this real shame of stepping out on-stage and embarrassment of still being on-stage because I was doing all these sexy dance moves and just the whole time, I felt people were looking at me and thinking, “she’s disgusting”, why is she there?’
Nadia Sawalha sympathised with Frankie’s feelings and weighed in: ‘We’re so awful to ourselves as women, you’re growing life. It’s so sad.’
Frankie then admitted: ‘I do carry some of that shame because I have stretch marks and I have looser skin in places and I feel like coming from the position I was in being in a band, I feel like I shouldn’t have that.
‘I should be some kind of supernatural woman that her body doesn’t change. I don’t “look” like a mum.’
Frankie shares sons Parker and Carter with husband Wayne Bridge who she married in 2014.
On more of a light-hearted note, the Loose Women ladies found themselves cry-laughing over Judi Love’s hilarious dating advice.
Loose Women airs weekdays at 12:30pm on ITV.
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