I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessarily warm to me. But now I have been through childbirth, post-natal depression and struggled with my weight, women seem to relate to me a lot more.