Vicky Pattison asked her fiance if he wanted her to get cosmetic surgery.

Vicky Pattison

Vicky Pattison

The former 'Geordie Shore' star, who has fluctuated from a size 16 to a size 6 over the years, felt so self-conscious about her body "not too long ago" that she was willing to go under the knife to get the perfect physique for her beau John Noble.

Speaking to heat magazine, she said: "Not long ago, I said to John, 'I'm struggling to get into this (exercise), would you like it if I had surgery? It would be a quick fix and I would have this gorgeous body straight away'.

"He went, 'Are you joking? I love your body'. I had been panicking thinking he was looking at all these birds thinking, 'Vic used to look like that'. But he's not.

"He loves me for me. I could've cried. And it made me really sad that I would even ask that, because you want to be loved for exactly who you are."

Although she's not keen on going to the gym, the 30-year-old beauty has realised that exercise helps with her mental health because it puts things into perspective.

She said recently: "For me, exercise is so much more than looking nice in a bikini. It's my mental state. I can wake up in the morning and feel drained, overwhelmed, exhausted, scared for what the day can hold. But if I go to the gym and train, things that were overwhelming seem manageable. It puts me in the right frame of mind."

Vicky is an avid social media user, regularly posting behind-the-scenes snaps of her celebrity lifestyle on Instagram, but she feels frustrated by celebrities who edit their online pictures because it puts an unrealistic pressure on young women.

She said: "Unrealistic images of perfection for women on social media - that bothers me. Everyone feels the pressure. Kim Kardashian doesn't look like Kim Kardashian."