‘I pretended I was someone I wasn't'
New UK|June 15, 2020
Ex-WAG Danielle Lloyd opens up about how she’s grown up since her modelling days, the demands of lockdown with four sons and her baby plans with husband Michael
ANNA BAILEY
‘I pretended I was someone I wasn't'

Danielle Lloyd has had her fair share of ups and downs. She has overcome abusive relationships, rehab, botched boob jobs, trolling and WAG feuds aplenty and come out the other side with a positive mindset. “I’m a totally different person now,” she tells us when we call for a catch-up. “I’ve got to the stage in my life where I don’t care about what anybody else thinks.”

The 36-year-old married electrician Michael O’Neill, 33, in Dubai last April and credits her happy relationship for her new outlook. And it’s a good job she’s mentally fighting fit, as she’s been grappling with home-schooling Archie, nine, Harry, eight, and George, six, her sons with ex Jamie O’Hara, while looking after two-year-old Ronnie, her first child with Michael.

No wonder she sounds frazzled. “I’m having a mad morning,” she says over a cacophony of boisterous activity in the background. “I’ve only got two kids in the kitchen and it sounds like a bloody petting zoo!”

Thankfully, Michael swoops in to help so we can chat about how she’s been juggling family life with volunteering as an NHS responder and her new modelling venture on subscription site OnlyFans, which she joined after going under the knife last year. “I feel my sexiest ever, so why not?” she says.

The former glamour model hit the headlines earlier this month when she was spotted cradling her stomach, setting tongues wagging that she could be pregnant. And, while questions about that are off limits, she does reveal she was set to jet to Dubai to get the ball rolling on the controversial gender selection process this summer.

Here, Danielle also spills on the WAGatha Christie drama, the wonders of therapy and her plans for the future…

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