I'm battling with my image'

Charlotte Crosby on her confidence issues, life as a new mum and whether baby number two is on the cards

- LISA BLAKE

It’s been nearly 12 years since Charlotte Crosby burst onto our screens as an OG cast member on Geordie Shore and life couldn’t be more different for the star.

Famed for her outrageous, booze-fuelled behaviour, boyfriend bust-ups and friendship feuds, Charlotte now enjoys a quieter life as a mum to five-month-old Alba Jean, who she shares with her boyfriend, Jake Ankers.

While Charlotte, 32, describes her daughter as the best thing to ever happen to her, she admits she’s lost confidence in herself since becoming a mum. In December, she even had her infamous lip fillers dissolved, saying they started to get “too ridiculous” after her post-pregnancy swelling made them look even more inflated.

She tells new, “I was a lot more confident when I had fillers. It’s really noticeable, to the point where it affects me and I don’t feel confident in front of the cameras. I don’t like it. I’m struggling to come to terms with having smaller lips. Getting them dissolved is not worth how I feel. I feel self-conscious and it’s not nice to feel like that.”

And it’s not just her lips that cause Charlotte’s confidence issues. “I’ve just had a baby and I’m a stone and a half heavier, so I probably dissolved them at a really bad time. I feel bigger, so by shrinking my lips, it’s made me feel like my face is even bigger.

“When you have a baby, your body changes and you have these battles with your image. It’s an awful time. Dissolving my lips at that point was not a good idea, but I couldn’t have walked around with them that big. It was a catch-22.”