Kelly Brook’s voluptuous body has seen her top polls of the world’s sexiest women, yet she infuriated fans last week by posting a heavily-edited selfie.
The model was shamed online for using an app to slim her waist, then sparked a further backlash when she defended herself, posting: “Slightly Photoshopping pics is no different to women wearing fake hair, putting chicken fillets in their bras, squeezing into Spanx or having filler and Botox in their face.”
And insiders reveal Kelly’s behaviour is masking insecurity about her body and vulnerability following reports earlier this month that her seven-month relationship with martial arts expert Jeremy Parisi was in trouble.
A source says: “Kelly is ambassador for the Atkins diet so she’s under a lot of pressure to look a certain way. She’s gone up and down the scales a little this year and it’s made her increasingly self-conscious about her body. To make it worse, Kelly caught Jeremy looking at pics of younger models on Instagram and, while it was all innocent, she took it as a huge blow to her confidence.”
Read the full story in this week’s Closer – out now!