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Gemma Atkinson has addressed vile trolls calling her ‘fat’ and ‘lazy’ just three weeks after giving birth.
Last month, the 38-year-old actress – who is engaged to Strictly Come Dancing pro Gorka Marquez – gave birth to their second child Thiago.
A few weeks later, the former Hollyoaks star has responded to ‘mum-shamers’ after suffering abuse when she was ‘papped’ leaving the doctors with her mum and her son.
Taking to her Instagram Story, she said: ‘Me and my mum were out the other day and a guy papped us – I had no issues, he was doing his job – but it was funny that everything in the article was very, very incorrect.
‘They said we were on a shopping spree. The truth is we were going to the doctors, I needed some steroid cream for my pile!’
She joked she ‘looked like a bag of rags’ in her maternity dress due to her scars from childbirth.
She continued: ‘My mum was pushing the pram because it’s quite hilly where I live, I didn’t want to overdo it up-hill.
‘When I came out the doctors I was looking at the medication ingredients list on my phone to see if it would affect my breastfeeding and get in my bloodstream, you know what I’m like.
‘Anyway I get a lot of DMs, some are lovely, some of them aren’t. I’ve already had one today saying Thiago shouldn’t be in the sun. I’ve had another saying how lazy I was letting my mum push the pram. I got another saying “you used to be fit and you’re still fat.”
‘So I was thinking all of this was coming from an article which was completely untrue!’
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Last week, Gemma admitted she wasn’t focused on exercising at the moment, as she’s instead making her recovery from a C-section birth her priority.
She said: ‘I’m not expecting to look like my old self for months down the line yet. I haven’t even left the house other than pottering about in the garden.
‘I’ve been mindful to rest as much as I can to aid recovery down the line. Weather permitting, towards the end of this week I’m going to start some short walks.
‘Until I’ve had my mummy MOT that’s all the exercise I’ll be doing. What I’ve been focusing on instead is trying to make myself feel like my old self, and so far it’s worked.’
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