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Love Island's Abi Titmuss looks completely different after launching Hollywood career

Love Island star Abi Titmuss is unrecognisable after moving to America to pursue a Hollywood career.

The 45-year-old has ditched her modelling days and works as an actress and lives in LA.

She is married to American musician Ari Welkom and now goes by Abigail Evelyn instead.

The pair have a son together after they met on the set of Days Of Our Lives which she worked on in 2015.

They said "I do" in an intimate ceremony in Malibu, California in May 2017, and Abi looked radiant with her baby bump.

In one sweet wedding snap, her new husband Ari placed his hand on her tummy.

She told Hello! magazine that she was very aware of their little one's presence on their big day.

She said: "I was aware throughout our wedding day that there were three, not two, of us experiencing it together.

"The baby is able to hear now and it was lovely to think he or she could have been listening to us making our vows.

"When the harpist started to play, I could feel him or her moving around."

Abi's days of glamour modelling are behind her (Sunday Mirror)
She was in Celebrity Love Island in 2005 (Unknown)

Abi, who was a nurse, first stepped into the limelight after dating Blue Peter presenter John Leslie.

After the pair went separate ways Abi stepped into reality TV and appeared on Celebrity Love Island, Hell's Kitchen, and Come Dine With Me.

She has led a private life since hopping across the pond - a far cry from her days working as a glamour model.

Speaking about the struggles she faced in the public eye, she said: “Financially I did very well but it came at a great emotional cost. I had very low self-esteem because I didn’t understand why it had happened to me and I didn’t think I deserved any of it.

Abi with American actor Jay Benedict (PA)

“I started getting my self-esteem from the camera lens and that is a dangerous place to be. If I was not on the front page I would worry.

“I was self-medicating with drink, drugs, shopping, food, relationships – you name it. I was going out every night… you enter a twilight zone.”

But she said that she had "found the one" in Ari and was ready for motherhood.

In March 2017 she told The Sunday Mirror: "I'm engaged to the love of my life and I'm ready to be a mum. Having children has always been really important to me."

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