Get beach-ready with sexy ’slimsuit’

Debenhams launches its innovative new 'Slimsuit' which has been dubbed a 'diet in a swimsuit' for its ability to create the illusion of instant inch-loss.

The fashion retailer is expecting record sales of the swimsuit, following customer research revealing that 92% of women dread getting into their swimwear and 55% of those questioned said they slimmed down prior to their holidays.

As a result, Debenhams took the measurements of 5,000 British women to help create the perfect figure-sculpting shapewear swimwear.

Sasha Nagalingham, swimwear buyer at Debenhams said: "The challenge was to use data to create a suit that accentuates the good bits, and smoothes the lumpy bits without making women feel like they're wrapped in cling-film. It's Spanx for the beach."

The majority of women (55%) agreed that the top body worry when stripping off for the beach to put on a swimsuit or bikini, Beach Wear was a flabby tummy, with the need for bust support coming a close second (37%).

A staggering 98% of women identified feeling and looking 'shapeless' in a swimsuit as one of their top five concerns.

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Holly Willoughby’s sexy summer outfits hit Very store

Renowned for her curves and classic style, Holly Willoughby’s High Summer collection is brimming with sexy and flattering outfits for the summer season at Very.co.uk. The poppy brights look great teamed with black and the collection is anchored by chic little black women’s dress and monochrome prints. The styles have a retro 1950’s flavour, with hourglass silhouettes and hemlines that celebrate the female form.

Nautical inspired pieces give the collection a real holiday feel; a striped Breton inspired top, sweet blue culottes finished with beige buttons, cobalt body con dress that fuses panels of block colour and statement stripes or breezy white cotton sun dress.

With dresses always a key focus, Holly showcases a number of gorgeous styles. For cute, girlish glamour choose tiered and ruffled tea dresses. The season’s perfect party dress a zingy red mesh sleeveless dress is a juxtaposition of modern colour and chic, classic design.

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'I am what I am': Martine McCutcheon shows off her curves in new photoshoot as she insists she is proud to be a role model for 'real' women

She's had her fair share of time in the spotlight over her weight in the past.

But now Martine McCutcheon has posed for a new photoshoot to show off her curves and insists she is proud to be a role model for 'real' women.

The 34-year-old actress, who previously admitted she fluctuates between a size 8 and a 14, said she has learned to accept and love her figure.

She told SHE magazine: 'I think there's always room for improvement, but I've learned a lot since hitting my 30s and accepting what I am and what I'm not. And I've stopped striving for something I can't maintain.

'I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin either.

'I've never pretended to be a supermodel. I am what I am. I'm attractive, I make the most of myself and I'm real.'

In the accompanying photoshoot, Martine looks stunning as she poses in a slinky satin dress before changing into a pussybow shirt and polka dot skirt for another shot.

However, the former EastEnders star admits it was difficult maintaining her figure in the public eye.

She added: 'I think it was a blessing and a curse growing up in the public eye. I’ve had everything said about me that can be said - the good, the bad, the ugly.

'You start to realise you need to be own best friend and be kind to yourself.'

As well as proudly displaying her curves in the shoot, Martine sports a glowing complexion, which could be down to the fact she is in the process of planning her wedding to fiancé Jack McManus.

However, Martine said she isn't too worried about starting a family too quickly, and would like to enjoy married life before having children.

She said: 'I’m not too worried about having children at the moment. I feel like, it’ll happen when it happens, but I’m not yearning to be a mother. I’d be lying if I said I am.

'My mum had my brother when I was 15 and I was like another mum to him.

'So I’ve no illusions about the fairytale family, I know the reality of hard work.

'I'm enjoying being loved up and having my career my way and feeling a lot more content in my own skin.

'I think there are lots of passions in life that don’t have to revolve around taking care of someone else 24/7.'

And Martine, who previously dated Mick Hucknall and model James Gooding, said she believes her past relationships put her on the path to meeting singer McManus.

She said: 'I don’t think it’s a coincidence that knowing myself made me find someone who’s a lot better for me.

'How can you pick the right person when you don’t even know yourself?

'But I wouldn’t change the relationships I had. They helped me define what I wanted.'

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'Other pop stars who have had plastic surgery are harmful and promote insecurity... but my horns are just artistic' says Lady Gaga

She may have taken to wearing prosthetic horns on her face and shoulders of late, but Lady Gaga has insisted that she will never succumb to plastic surgery.

.In a new interview, the 25-year-old called cosmetic procedures 'harmful' because they promote insecurity.

Speaking in the May issue of U.S. Harper's Bazaar, she revealed: 'I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

'I think promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.'

She continued: 'And how many models and actresses do you see on magazine covers who have brand-new faces and have had plastic surgery, while I myself have never had any plastic surgery?

'I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.'

Gaga is defending her recent taste for the sharp, protruding 'bones' that she has been sporting of late.

Questioned by the magazine on them, she insists: 'They're not prosthetics. They're my bones.

'They come out when I'm inspired.

'They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.'

Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, admitted that she tried to embrace Hollywood when she first became famous, but hated it.

'I had all these number-one records, and I had sold all these albums, and it was sort of this turning point: "Am I going to try and embrace Hollywood and assimilate to that culture?"' she said.

'I put my toe in that water, and it was a Kegel-exercise vaginal reaction where I clenched and had to retract immediately.

'I ran furiously back to New York, to my old apartment, and I hung out with my friends, and I went to the same bars.'

Bizarrely, Gaga also believes that the late designer Alexander McQueen is living on through her music.

'I think he planned the whole thing: Right after he died, I wrote Born This Way,' the singer says.

'I think he's up in heaven with fashion strings in his hands, marionetting away, planning this whole thing.'

She uses her record label's decision to release the new single on the one year anniversary of McQueen's death as further evidence of her claim.

'When I heard that, I knew he planned the whole damn thing. I didn't even write the f****** song. He did!'

The full feature appears in the May issue of US Harper's Bazaar, on newsstands April 26.

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