Abbey Clancy is rarely (if ever) photographed looking anything less than perfect – a point proved when she was recently voted as having the best legs in showbiz.
But that doesn’t mean the star who shot to fame in 2006 on Britain’s Next Top Model is exempt to online trolls slamming what she wears but Abbey, 28, tells Closer she lets any nasty comments wash over her.
She says: “I love clothes and dressing up, as well as buying new things, but it’s not the thing that drives me. I don’t get up every day thinking ‘what am I going to wear?’”
And it’s the same when it comes to Abbey’s three-year-old daughter Sophia with her husband footballer Peter Crouch. In October Abbey faced criticism when Sophia was snapped wearing heels but she refuses to allow that to upset her.
Abbey adds: “I don’t worry about what my child wears. All the negative comments about what she wears is pointless and quite sad. I let Sophia where what she wants, otherwise it would be world war three every day.”
Having her private life scrutinised is nothing new to Abbey, last year she faced rumours that she was getting increasingly close to dancer Aljaz Skorjanec when they competed together on Strictly Come Dancing.
But Abbey is quick to play down such rumours, she says: “All he [Pete] was jealous of was my being on it and not him. He’d love to be on it one day as he loves to dance, we often have a twirl around the living room. The trouble is all the professional girl dancers are tiny on Strictly so he’d just have to carry them around.”
With such a relaxed attitude to things, Abbey wasn’t even upset by rumours she went on the show to prove she was a nice person.
She adds: “I found it’s best not to care about what other people think. What matters is your family and your friends. I don’t live my life for other people and I’ve never tried to be something I’m not. I’ve heard it suggested that I went on Strictly to prove I was a nice person in real life! But why would I do that? Anyway, there’s no ‘different’ side to me, I’m always just like I am.”