Lauren Goodger

Lauren Goodger

Lauren Goodger likes her boyfriends to be controlling.

The former 'The Only Way Is Essex' star - who was previously engaged to her on-off boyfriend of over 10 years Mark Wright - has revealed she finds men who are confident and controlling attractive but admits she knows they're not good for her.

Quizzed on who her ideal man is, she told OK! magazine: "I'm attracted to east London boys with a bit of swagger, someone who has confidence to go, 'Come here, babe'. I can't have boys around me that aren't confident and feel nervous.

"I need to be controlled. The only person I've been with this year is Jake [McLean, ex-boyfriend]. But he's too much trouble. I'm attracted to what's bad for me."

The 27-year-old beauty is currently competing on Channel 5 reality series 'Celebrity Big Brother' and thinks people will be shocked to see what she's really like.

She explained: "When I meet people, they're like, 'You're really different in real life'. People think I'm quite fiery, opinionated, confrontational and bitchy but that was my TOWIE character. It was real life but they didn't want to see any of the happy sides of me."

Lauren also confessed she hopes people will realise she's not as chubby as she often looks in paparazzi pictures.

She added: "The thing that annoys me is pap pictures because they are always so unflattering and from bad angles, making me look bigger than I am. I am curvy, so it's not hard for them to get bad pictures of me.

"Obviously I might look curvier and bigger than the other girls but that's me."