The Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Tanya Bardsley has revealed her husband called her stomach a “mum bag” before she had a tummy tuck.
The mum-of-four has a 20-year-old daughter Gabriella from a previous relationship.
She also shares sons Rocco, 13, Renz, nine, and five-year-old Ralphi with footballer husband Phil Bardsley.
But despite doing a ton of exercise, Tanya said having kids left her with stomach muscles which were three inches apart.
After thinking about having a tummy tuck for ages, the 40-year-old finally took the plunge and went under the knife in January – and says she is “over the moon” with the results.
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Tanya said husband Phil had doubts over the surgery following her previous botched boob job.
She told New magazine: “Phil kept saying, ‘No, I love your stomach as it is!’ but he did also call it my mum bag! But [now I’ve had the surgery] he does think it looks good.
“I think he was just scared after my bad boob job and he’d heard horror stories with surgery, but he was fine in the end.”
The reality star added: “You know what men are like – they don’t want the woman being out of action as they have to do more work!”
Showing off her new bod, Tanya said she was feeling “so much better” in herself and joked: “It’s nice not having to tuck my skin into my Spanx!”
Tanya was an original cast member of The Real Housewives Of Cheshire when it first aired on ITVBe back in 2015.
She recently revealed she had quit the show after six years following an ADHD diagnosis and a terrifying seizure which saw her rushed to hospital last August.
The model revealed she collapsed during a photoshoot and later said stress caused by “overworking” was to blame.
Writing on Instagram, she said: “One minute in the studio the next minute in a ambulance.
“I collapsed from stress from overworking and basically trying to be perfect in every area of my life, mum, wife, businesswoman, carer for poorly relatives.
"My brain and body shut down as a warning. I’m having a few days off my phone so sorry to any1 if I don’t reply to messages and emails @phil_bardsley is forcing me to rest.”
Tanya has since vowed to put her health first and shared it was the seizure which made her quit the show.
“If I hadn’t have had the seizure, I would have been on there until I died,” she said.
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