Love Island Australia star shows off her post-baby body six months after welcoming first child: 'I put on a LOT of weight'

Phoebe Thompson has shared her fitness journey after welcoming her first child. 

The former Love Island Australia star, who had her son, Knox Evans, six months ago, debuted her post-baby body in an Instagram Stories post this week. 

The 34-year-old explained that she had gained weight during her pregnancy and has been struggling to get back in the gym. 

'Six months postpartum, a few kilos away from my goal weight,' Phoebe wrote alongside a photo of herself in a white bikini. 

'Breastfeeding and walking has been my saving grace, because I'm averaging 1-2 gym sessions a week, which is eff all considering I used to go to the gym 5-6 days a week,' she continued. 

'This isn't meant to ignite comparison. As someone who put on A LOT of weight during pregnancy, and thought I would never feel like myself again.'

Phoebe had a difficult pregnancy, revealing last year that she had been struggling with hyperemesis gravidarum and prenatal depression. 

'I was fighting for my life in the first trimester,' she wrote in a social media post. 

Phoebe explained that she did not want to 'sugarcoat' her experience. 

'For many women, pregnancy isn't all glow and rainbows,' she wrote. 

'It can feel like 10 months of Survivor: Vomiting, gagging, nutrient-depleted, mentally broken over the toilet bowl at 3am.'

The reality star added: 'The past few months have humbled me in ways I didn't know possible. I've felt excited, scared, grateful, lost and helpless all at once. 

'It wasn't morning sickness - it was all day and night.'

The television personality went on to describe her crippling prenatal depression - a condition she did not understand before she experienced it. 

'I didn't recognise myself. I thought I'd be one of those active, glowing, strong mamas-to-be. Instead, I was bedridden and broken,' she wrote. 

'Why couldn't I embrace the miracle? I carried guilt for not loving pregnancy. I questioned my worth, my strength, my ability to be a mum.' 

Phoebe married her partner Colin Evans in a very unconventional wedding in September last year, while heavily pregnant. 

'Officially tied the knot in a hotel room before baby boy,' Phoebe wrote in her Instagram caption. 

'Even though we had to move our big wedding forward, as bub planned to make his arrival at the same time. This intimate ceremony was everything and more.'

Phoebe said she planned to get 'lit' and be 'skinny' at their 'next wedding' after the baby is born, adding, 'Mr & Mrs Evans'. 

She is best known for coupling up with another woman on season two of Love Island Australia in 2019.

It was the first same-sex couple in the franchise's history.