Jennifer Ellison has barely aged a day as she shared a new bikini snap while celebrating her 18th wedding anniversary to husband Rob Tickle.
The star, 42, who has largely retired from public life now, took to Instagram to share snaps of her breakaway with Rob as they marked their milestone.
Jennifer told her followers how she and boxer Rob enjoyed two nights away from the children at the five-star Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland.
Sharing pictures from their stay, she proved she is an ageless beauty while showing off her slim physique in a bikini.
Another snap from her carousel showed the former Brookside actress in a figure-hugging black frock. She put on an eye-popping display in the strapless dress, which she paired with black high-heels.
Jennifer captioned her loved-up pictures: '18 years of me and you. Had the most gorgeous 2 nights away, from start to finish! Thank you for everything you have given me @tickle.rob Love doing life with you! My best mate, my husband, my partner in work and crime my everything. For as both as we long shall live.'
Jennifer's followers flooded her with compliments as they commented on her sensational figure, writing: 'You look insane. Happy Anniversary'; 'Looking so beautiful'; 'Absolutely stunning looking woman'; 'You look amazing....happy anniversary'.
Jennifer and Rob tied the knot in October 2009 and they share three sons together. She began dating the boxer in May 2008 and were engaged in October of that year during a trip to the Maldives.
In 2023 Jennifer revealed she had quit dieting and is now happy with her body, after years of yo-yo dieting. Previously speaking about her weight, Jennifer told OK! Magazine: 'I'm not the smallest I've ever been, but am at a happy weight where I feel OK getting into a bikini or a costume in the swimming pool. I'm in a happy and confident place. I am about 10st 11lb at the moment. I don't feel I'm in that rat race anymore of having to look amazing. I've stopped trying to diet. When you do faddy diets they don't work, so I've given up. My weight has gone up and down so much over the years so I just try to eat healthily now.'
Jennifer became a lads' mag favourite in the noughties after her TV work, though she stepped away from the industry and now runs her own dance school, Jelli Studios. The business has proven successful, having launched the careers of BGT success stories Boogie Storm and The Greatest Dancer.
Jennifer's youth was anything but peaceful, after she became involved with a Liverpool gangster named Anthony Richardson who was later jailed for a vicious sword attack. During her relationship with Tony, Jennifer feared for her life on more than one occasion, including one time when she was forced off the road by a rival gang.
Jennifer explained how she was living 'parallel lives' during her early fame as a star of Liverpool-based Brookside, while also dating Tony, who was linked to criminal underworld figures. Years after being beaten and abused by her ex-boyfriend, Jennifer revealed she has finally come to terms with her violent past and is grateful that she managed to escape a life which saw her home shot at.
The Liverpool native now typically stays out of the spotlight, but did make a TV appearance in 2022 where she appeared on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. During an episode, she broke down in tears to Commando Jason Fox admitting her life with Tony left her feeling 'worthless'. The relationship ended when Jennifer discovered Tony was cheating on her with John Terry's ex-girlfriend Shalimar Wimble, which she describes as her 'get out of jail free card'.
Reflecting on her traumatic past Jennifer told The Mirror: 'It was a volatile relationship and he was connected with this other world, this gangland world. For years and years I thought that life was normal and bad things like that happened to everyone because it happened in the world I was in. I was having nails in my letter box, going into hiding and fearing for your life walking down the street. That's not normal. I look back and think how it was so traumatic. It was so horrific what I was going through. I was such a young girl, I was a baby. I feel like opening up in the mirror room about that has put that part of my life to bed. It was like the best therapy session ever.'
