She is a mother-of-three sons – the youngest of whom was born a little over a year ago. So Jennifer Ellison certainly has her hands full. 

Shockingly, however, the 32-year-old actress was yesterday at the receiving end of numerous nasty online messages relating to her appearance. 

Appearing on Lorraine on ITV, Jennifer wore a pretty embroidered tunic, jeans and criss-cross platform sandals. 

And despite looking gorgeous, some social media users were quick to criticise – labelling Ms Ellison "fat," and "ugly". Others said they were "stunned," and that they simply "didn't recognise" the former Brookside star.

Still, the Liverpool-native is certainly standing her ground. In fact, Jen has now said that she's unfazed by the "trolls" and that as she's totally happy in her own skin – despite being the heaviest she's ever been at 14st (88kg).

“I don’t care about trolls. What I look like is not a priority," she said in conversation with Mirror Online. 

"My husband still looks at me the way he did when I was 9st, after doing my fitness DVD. I’m happy and feel so loved.

“He thinks I’m the sexiest woman in the world. So I’m not worried, because he finds me as attractive as he always did and he loves my bum and my boobs.

At 5ft 5ins tall, Jen admits, however, that her weight does fluctuate regularly. She now says she is giving herself two years to get down to her goal-weight of 10st, and that she is determined to stop yo-yo dieting.

"I don’t want to fluctuate all my life, I’ve done every fad diet under the sun – as soon as you start eating properly again, you put it all back on.

"I’m known as a yo-yo dieter."

In recent years, Jen has been everything from a size 8 to a size 18 but she has previously told OK! magazine: "I used to be obsessed with what I looked like, always in the gym, and now I just don’t care – there are other priorities."