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Vicky Pattison thanked fans for their kind messages after she posted a series of holiday snaps from Montenegro – but told them 'glam bikini pictures were not the goal, motherhood is'.
The television personality, 38, took to Instagram on Monday to share a candid post showing her first swimwear picture on holiday as she posed in a high-waisted striped bikini, compared to her first photo in white lingerie after arriving back home.
Vicky, who is married to husband Ercan Ramadan, said she increased her fitness regime with the goal of falling pregnant but hasn't restricted her diet and enjoyed indulging on holiday.
She wrote: 'First bikini picture on holiday versus my first picture of my bod at home...
'I got loads of lovely messages about my posts when I was away 'your figure!', 'omg girl, you can tell you've been working out!' Etc... and whereas I love you all and these messages are lush.. I just wanted to be very real with you all for a second.
'I have always worked out, but this year I upped the ante, for a couple of reasons- but mainly because I want to have a baby. And I want to be as strong and capable as possible if and when that time comes.
Vicky Pattison thanked fans for their kind messages after she posted a series of holiday snaps from Montenegro - but told them 'glam bikini pictures were not the goal, motherhood is'
'Glamorous and posey bikini pictures were not the goal... motherhood is', she wrote in the caption
'Glamorous and posey bikini pictures were not the goal... motherhood is. And while it's lovely to be able to feel good about my body on holiday (as women, we all know how hard that can be) I just wanted you to know that these w***y pictures are a lot of smoke and mirrors.. great swimwear, carefully curated, unnatural and normally f**king uncomfortable poses, skinny mirrors, good angles, a great spray tan... the list goes on .
'I also ENJOYED my holiday... unashamedly. I ate and drank everything I wanted because that is one of my greatest pleasures in life- exploring a new country with my husband, embracing the local culture a bit and genuinely LIVING. And I'm never going to feel guilty about that.. privileged? Definitely. But never guilty.
'Life is for living and we all know just how precious and short it can be.. so yeah, my body does look a bit different now to how it did when I went away.. and that's ok. Bodies change, weight fluctuates.. and THAT'S OK! I think what I'm trying to say is never allow someone's holiday pictures, vacation snaps or social media posts to make you question your own worth and beauty... because it's probably all bulls**t anyway.
'The mummy blogger is probably exhausted, the fitness influencer eats ice cream over the sink late at night and the 'celeb' doesn't look like that all the time...
'We're all lovely just the way we are.. our lumps and bumps, our soft tummies, our saggy bums.. whatever it is! Don't let anyone's filtered life, make you love your real one any less'.
Vicky's followers took to the comment section where they called the star 'inspiring' and commended her for 'keeping it real'.
During a recent episode of her podcast, Vicky broke down in tears as she reflected on her struggles to have a child.
Vicky, who is married to husband Ercan Ramadan, said she increased her fitness regime with the goal of falling pregnant but hasn't restricted her diet and enjoyed indulging on holiday
The star has been open with her fans about her fertility journey, and has been candidly documenting the process of freezing her eggs, which she started when she was 35.
She said she wanted to take control of her fertility, and had the treatment which resulted in three embryos being frozen.
And now the star has confirmed she and her husband Ercan are trying for children as she tearfully admitted: 'I didn't think I'd be this age without a baby or a family.'
Appearing on the BBC's Sort Your Life Out Unpacked podcast, Vicky explained: 'It's just the way the cookie crumbles and like how life sometimes like presents you with different things and different opportunities and stuff. And I've never really felt ready until now.
'It's wild but like something just clicks, and the minute you feel ready it's like you need a baby straight away.
'And all my whole life I felt so content and so happy and so proud of the things I was doing, and now all of a sudden, because I don't have a baby, I feel a bit lost.'
Wiping away her tears she continued: 'I love my husband so much. He's going to make such a great dad. We're just trying not to put too much pressure on ourselves.
'We made a decision a couple years ago to freeze our eggs which I'm like so happy we did. Gives you that bit of a security blanket.
'Yeah, I look forward to the day where that is a treatment that is available for more women, more affordable, certainly.'
Jokingly she added: 'But yeah, at the moment, Well I mean, he's [Ercan's] having a lovely time.
'I know these things take time, but patience has never been one of my virtues.'
In a 2025 interview with Women's Health UK she admitted that she has a 'huge question mark over motherhood' and that the pressure to have a baby now that she is married is 'suffocating'.
She explained that she had worked so hard for so long to get where she has career-wise, that taking a break 'scares her'.
'I'm a huge advocate for egg freezing, although I'm saying that from a position of financial privilege,' she said.
'Women shouldn't be beholden to this invisible timeline. We're fed this narrative that we can have it all and do whatever we want, but it's not necessarily true. In women's lives, there has to be a lot of compromise involved.
'I met Ercan when I was 31 and wanted to give our relationship breathing space… It's been the best thing I've ever done. I felt really suffocated, on a kind of conveyor belt, and now I feel free.'
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