September 09, 2020 – 12:12 BST

Nichola Murphy


Nadia Sawalha is usually praised for her body positivity on social media, however how does the Loose Women star actually really feel about her determine?

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In an interview with HELLO!, she admitted each herself and husband Mark Adderley have “very warped ideas of how we look”. From recreating Madonna’s photos to posing in her underwear and thin dipping within the pool, many followers might be fooled into considering the 55-year-outdated oozes confidence.

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The Loose Women star typically shares candid photos on Instagram

In truth, she confessed: “Every single day I have to work on it.” Nadia continued: “People say to me: ‘I wish I had your confidence’, and I always answer them: ‘I haven’t got my confidence!’ Sometimes I have to really fake it to make it. I just say: ‘Today I feel amazing’ and I don’t.”

After asking Mark his opinion on his spouse’s body confidence photos, the TV producer had the sweetest response – and it even made Nadia emotional!

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“I’m incredibly proud of the way Nadia with her huge gallows sense of humour goes about this,” Mark defined to HELLO!. “I think it’s an extension of who she is – she’s very funny, she’s very witty, she’s very self-deprecating. But I hate these terms like ‘brave’. She is what she is, it makes her a more powerful woman and I think she’s a fabulous role model.”

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Nadia responded: “Aww, you’re going to make me cry!” The pair share daughters Maddie and Kiki-Bee, however the TV star revealed they do not share their dad’s opinion when it comes to Nadia’s candid photos. 

“The girls will go: ‘Oh my god, it’s so embarrassing! Oh mum, I can’t believe you did that thing with your stomach.’ And they’re mortified,” Nadia joked, earlier than sharing a candy hack to encourage self-confidence in her daughters.

Speaking of the response she will get from her followers after displaying off her curves, the doting mum defined: “Every time I post something I’ll get a thousand messages and I read every single one. I copy and paste them and just send them here and there to the girls, and say: ‘You don’t have to answer me but I just want you to read this.’ I want to play a part in changing the narrative.”

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