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Millie Mackintosh has recalled an embarrassing moment she decided to go skinny dipping, unaware she was swimming amongst sharks.
The former Made In Chelsea star, 35, was on holiday in Australia with pals, staying on Fraser Island [K’gari].
Millie, who was 18 at the time, and her friends had been warned not to swim in the sea because of neighbouring sharks, though decided to break the rules and try skinny dipping one night.
Speaking to The Times, she explained: ‘I thought that as long as I stayed close to the shore it would be fine.
‘Suddenly these two lifeguards came running across the beach, waving at me. I could just hear them shouting, “Get out of the water — it’s shark mating season!”
‘I had no clothes on, but in the end I decided that being embarrassed in front of the lifeguards was better than being eaten.
‘When you’re young you don’t always do the most sensible things.’
Meanwhile, Millie recently showed off her toned physique while on a family holiday to Turkey last month.
Millie Mackintosh has recalled an embarrassing moment she decided to go skinny dipping, unaware she was swimming amongst sharks
Millie and her friends had been warned not to swim in the sea because of neighbouring sharks, though decided to break the rules and try skinny dipping one night
Millie said how she was ordered out of the water by life guards, forcing her to leave the see while completely starkers
She had been keeping fans updated during her relaxing break while topping up her bronzed complexion.
Millie shared a collection of her gorgeous summery looks from the trip to her 1.4million followers on Instagram.
In one picture, the busy mother wore a tiny blue and white bikini while showing off her collection of looks from her getaway.
The star also recently opened up on her sexuality as she revealed she struggled during her younger years.
She told how she would only find the coverage to ‘kiss’ women when she was drunk.
Speaking to Caggie Dunlop’s Saturn Returns Podcast, Millie said: ‘As a teen when I would drink, I would make out with women, but that’s not something I felt confident to do when I was sober…
‘I had crushes on girls at school and I just didn’t have the awareness to go ”I like girls as well.” I’d just have crushes and get all weird about them. I remember having sleepovets and going ”I wonder if they’re going to kiss me.”’
Millie added that a lot of her struggles have been unpacked in therapy, telling Caggie: ‘I’ve explored a lot of my relationship to women, I was bullied so I definitely have intimacy issues with women, but there’s this attraction as well.
Millie has just returned from a family holiday to Turkey as kept fans updated during her relaxing break while topping up her bronzed complexion
In one picture, the busy mother wore a tiny blue and white bikini while showing off her collection of looks from her getaway
‘Obviously I’m married to a man, it’s not something that affects our relationship at all now, but looking back and realising that was one of the reasons I drank in a destructive way, because there was a part of myself I didn’t understand and I didn’t know how to express it and I felt scared to express it.
‘Everytime I would drink I would just keep doing it, even if I was in a relationship.’
Millie went sober in 2022 and has spoken honestly about her battle with drink, releasing her very own book titled ‘Bad Drunk’.
Sharing the moment she opened up to husband Hugo Taylor about her sexuality, she revealed that he was incredibly supportive.
