Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh has showcased her figure in family holiday snaps taken during a summer trip to Spain.
The 44-year-old singer jetted to the Mediterranean with her husband Justin Scott and their three sons, 11-year-old Bobby, eight-year-old Cole, and four-year-old Nate, for a break away.
Girls Aloud are a British pop girl group formed in 2002 on the ITV talent show Popstars: The Rivals, alongside Cheryl Tweedy, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts, and the late Sarah Harding. Walsh married Scott, a former member of the boyband Triple 8, in Barbados in January 2016.
Sharing a carousel of images on social media on Monday, Walsh posed in a blue triangle bikini featuring tie-side bottoms while holding up a frozen cocktail.
She also shared pictures alongside her husband and sons, including photos where she pulled silly faces into the camera with the boys.
Walsh revealed that the family had been gifted a stay at the SO/ Sotogrande Spa & Golf Resort Hotel in Cadiz.
Sotogrande is a private residential resort located in the municipality of San Roque within the province of Cadiz in Andalusia, southern Spain.
Writing in her social media caption, Walsh described the stay as "the perfect way to round off the summer!" She added: "The resort is absolutely BEAUTIFUL and we had the most gorgeous days!"
Fitness routine and strength training
The holiday pictures follow revelations Walsh made in an October interview with the Daily Mail regarding her fitness routine and body confidence.
Speaking in an exclusive interview, the mother-of-three explained how a new workout regime helped her feel comfortable in her skin after struggling with self-image in the past.
Walsh admitted she previously disliked her arms and avoided showing them on red carpets, but she has since learned to accept them through regular weight training.
She explained that she returned to regular gym workouts three to four times a week after her youngest son Nate enrolled in reception.
"Over the last year, I have been able to take more time for myself," Walsh said. "Before that, when Nate was younger and he was home a lot more, he has never been in full time nursery, I just couldn't really do any exercise."
Walsh noted that her active routine helps her match the energy levels of her three young sons.
"I am trying to make the most of having more time to myself and staying in good physical shape and staying strong," she said. "I have three boys that require me to have their energy levels. For me it is about being strong and healthy, but I am working out a lot more than I was. I am enjoying it actually."
Workout preferences and family schedule
One of her fitness secrets involves training alongside her BBC Morning Live co-star Gethin Jones after the broadcast finishes, focusing on strength and weight training sessions.
Morning Live is a BBC One daytime magazine programme broadcast on weekday mornings, co-hosted by Welsh television presenter Gethin Jones.
Walsh outlined her preferred forms of exercise, explaining that she avoids traditional cardio workouts in favour of resistance-based routines.
"I don't like cardio so I do mainly strength training, weights, reformer Pilates, it works really well for my age group," she said. "It's hard on your core and quite a few people think it's easier than it is."
Reformer Pilates is a form of exercise performed on a flat sliding carriage within a wooden or metal frame, using springs and pulleys to provide adjustable resistance for strength and stability training.
Addressing her previous body insecurities, Walsh explained how heavy weight training changed her attitude toward her arms.
"I am not a huge fan of my arms so usually I don't get them out but where I have been working so hard, I have accepted it and been getting them out," she said. "I have been lifting heavy weights to try and achieve it."
Walsh schedules her gym sessions strictly during school hours to ensure her family routine remains unaffected.
"I train three times a week and if I have an extra session I'll do four," she explained. "I always take the weekends off with the kids because I train while they're at school so it doesn't really affect them."
She added that her weekends are devoted entirely to driving her children to their various activities and sports commitments.
"I am basically a taxi service for them at the weekends from football to golf to parties, whatever they have planned in their busy schedules," Walsh said.
