Millie Mackintosh opens up about post-baby body struggles and planned boob job

New mum Millie Mackintosh has opened up about her struggles with body.

The former Made In Chelsea star, 31, gave birth to her first child, Sienna, with fellow reality star Hugo Taylor, 34, back in May.

But the new parent has lifted the lid on her body confidence issues as she reflected on her relationship with her body post-pregnancy on Saturday.

Millie admitted she planned a boob job in the heartbreaking letter to her body before becoming amazed by her breasts’ capabilities as they fed her daughter for the first four months of her life.

In a love letter to herself, the former reality star showed a different side to herself by confiding in her 1.4million followers.

In the beautiful letter posted to her Instagram, Millie penned: “I stuffed my bras with cotton wool and often wore two for maximum effect.

“I always felt you were a bit small and I planned to do something about you at some point.

“Then, when I was pregnant you amazed me by doubling in size and then a lot more after Sienna was born and my milk came in.

“You fed my baby for the first four months of her life and for that I will always be grateful. Now you’ve deflated and after being so stretched, you look a little sad and saggy.

“How I miss you being being perfect and perky. How did I not see it? I wish I appreciated you more before.”

Millie went on to admit “abusing” her stomach in her younger years.

She wrote to it: “You are where I gain weight most easily and the hardest place to lose it.

“Now that you’ve grown and carried my daughter in you, I have a new found respect for you.

“I admit I find it hard sometimes to love your new softness and jiggle that is inevitable after having a baby, but I feel more connected to you as you grew a life inside you, so it’s OK if you never look the same, you have a story to tell now.”

She added she has “always thought” her bum was one of her best features.

However, she went on to admit she would prefer if it were “without scars” and wasn’t “dimpled with cellulite ”.

Of her skin, she wrote: “Starting in my early teens, and reappearing recently as adult acne, my breakouts have the power to reduce me to tears and destroy my body confidence.”

The mum-of-one then shared how she used to hate her legs as she was bullied at school and called “sparrow legs”.

But she deemed them to be her “favourite” feature in the letter.

Her note to her body concluded: “Our bodies are rooting for us all the time, constantly working to keep us alive, strong and thriving.

“Even if the mind decides it doesn’t love what it sees in the mirror, the body will always love us back again.”

Her beautiful and harrowing letter came just days after she opened up about how she “spiralled into anxiety” following the birth of her baby girl.

She told that she feared developing post-natal depression following the birth, experiencing fluctuating emotions.

Millie explained she would from “being euphorically happy, to being deeply sad and tearful.”

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