Rachel Stevens would happily show her daughters her sexy photoshoots.
Rachel Stevens
The 'Sweet Dreams My LA Ex' singer - who has Amelie, 10, and Minnie, six, with Alex Bourne - would never hide her previous photoshoots from her kids because she is "proud" of them.
She shared: "Winning 'sexiest female' was so lovely and so flattering. Obviously it’s all tongue-in-cheek and a bit of fun. For me, being in FHM wasn’t sexualised, it was about being sensual and creative. It was about being part of a team.
"I love photoshoots, anyway. I find them so fun and creative. I wouldn’t worry about showing Amelie and Minnie those shoots because I’m proud of what I did and my career. It was so of-the-moment. I took it for what it was - a bit of fun."
And Rachel insists she wasn't "confident" when she was growing up.
Speaking about her own confidence, she added: "Looking back, I wasn’t confident really. I’m definitely much more confident now. I know what I want.
"You just get to know yourself and what you need, don’t you? I want to bring my girls up to be confident in who they are and the decisions they make. I want them to have self-belief ... as rounded human beings. I’ll always be very honest with them. Kids are so emotionally smart - sometimes more so than we are as grown-ups."
The 42-year-old star admitted there was a lot of "learning and growing to do" through fame.
She told The Sun's Fabulous magazine: "When you’re a teenager, you don’t really know who you are. You're just working yourself out and that’s the time I got into the band. We were so protected and managed. So there was a lot of learning and growing to do.
"I'll never forget our first FHM shoot with all the girls, the four of us. We were marketed at a very young audience, so we had always done Smash Hits, Top Of The Pops and all those magazines before that. This gave us an opportunity to be a bit more grown-up and not be so smiley, happy, bubblegum. It was a nice opportunity to show another side."
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