Vicky Pattison is hitting back at her critics with her new Instagram post.
The former Geordie Shore star looked amazing as she posed in a skimpy black bikini for her latest snap as she enjoyed the sun and sea of Dubrovnik, Croatia.
She had previously opened up about her body image struggles but she looked as confident as ever as she smiled for the camera in her Pretty Little Thing bikini and stylish Dior hat.
"Her name Lola… she was a showgirl… (and if you don’t get this reference we are not old enough to be friends)," she wrote alongside the snap, referencing the Barry Manilow track Copacabana.
"Beautiful day out at @copacabanadubrovnik with my love.
"Bikini is @prettylittlething and hat is @dior and my tan is courtesy of @secretspauk as I have no patience for sunbathing at all."
Fans rushed to heap praise on Vicky for her stunning photo, branding her "beautiful".
One wrote: "Your body is such goals."
"Christ alive lady your looking cracking! X," another added in the comments.
A third shared: "You look stunning."
"Look fab @vickypattison! Have a fab holiday xx," a fourth penned.
Vicky had previously shared an honest post with her fans about her struggle to accept her body.
She wrote in a lengthy Instagram post: "This picture probably just looks like another holiday post to you guys- here Vicky is again, with her boobs out, on holiday, eating and drinking and being a smug cow. But to me it’s much more significant than that.
"It’s taken me years to come to accept my body- not punish it with endless exercise, not deprive it, not hide it away or hate it… and here I finally am at 33, in a bikini, eating a dessert and drinking a sugary cocktail without a care in the world!"
She explained how, in the past, she had stopped eating to avoid getting bloat around her stomach whilst she was in the pool or saved all of her day's calories to have a drink in the evening.
"I think back to that girl, and even though she had some amazing holidays, some brilliant experiences and travelled to some beautiful countries," she added.
"She was living a half life. A life in fear of her own f**king body shape, obsessed with my size and scared of my curves."
She urged other women feeling the same way to make memories now and enjoy life.
"Ladies, life doesn’t begin when you lose that stone, it doesn’t start when you fit into that dress- it’s happening now and by hating our bodies we’re just wasting our precious moments where we could be having fun and making memories," she wrote.
"Don’t be the lass sweating your tits off in a kaftan because you’re worried about your love handles, be the girl cannon balling onto the pool and showing everyone that being beautiful is about confidence- not a clothes size."
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