Brookside icon Jennifer Ellison, 43, shows off her slim figure in a red bikini after revealing her weight ballooned to 14st post-pregnancy

Brookside icon Jennifer Ellison, 43, showed off her slim figure in a saucy new snap after revealing her weight ballooned to 14st post-pregnancy.

The star is mother to Bobby, 16, Harry, 13, and Crarlie, 12, with husband Robbie Tickle  and previously detailed the changes in her body including her rapid weight gain.

Proving to be every inch the image of fitness and health, on Monday she took to Instagram to share a stunning snap showing her flexing in a red bikini. 

Earlier this year, Jennifer told Daily Mail how becoming a mother changed her life and led to her weight gain due to sugar addiction and led to her being trolled. 

She said: 'Being a mum turned my world upside down. Everything revolved around the boys. I came last in the pecking order'. I think any woman who says they're not bothered [about their body] is lying'.

She vividly recalls the brutality being especially vicious in pregnancy. 'People were writing things like, 'She's got the baby in her thighs. Look at the size of her!...

'She's eaten the baby.' How can anybody write that? But I had no worth for myself. I didn't look after myself. I was three stone heavier than I am now and I'd kind of lost myself'.

Jennifer reached 14 stone before appearing on Celebrity SAS in 2022. 

She then lost around three stone following the show. She says it transformed both her confidence and her relationship with exercise.

‘I just thought, “Let’s just go and do it, and put myself in these awful situations because it’s a job, and it’s getting me back on telly,”’ she says. ‘I started to love myself again.’ 

Having posed for lads' mags over the years, Jennifer spoke to Daily Mirror about tranitioning from pin-up to mum.

She said: 'I had a career that was based on my body, so people homed in on that. They were used to seeing me in bikinis, looking great, looking really slim and then I put all this weight on.

'I went for an audition then got a phone call saying I hadn't got the job because I was far too big. I cried and cried. Then I thought, 'Right, I have got to do something about it'.'

'I was a pin-up, and there I was with my mum tum. But I was just happy to have my little boy and I didn't care'.

'It was hard getting back to the gym as I had been in labour for 92 hours and had to have an emergency caesarean. Then I was breast-feeding and couldn't leave the baby for too long...

'I didn't want to hand Bobby over to a nanny so I could go to the gym. I couldn't have cared less what I looked like. All I cared about was being with him.'