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'HE'S MY ACTION MAN'

Charlotte Crosby reveals she’s glad she made ‘soul mate’ Stephen Bear wait for sex – and tells all about the pregnancy that nearly killed her

Reality TV favourite Charlotte Crosby tells all about bad dates, self-loathing, and nearly dying

CHARLOTTE CROSBY has lifted the lid on her life with boyfriend Stephen Bear – and told how her fellow reality TV star is her hunky Action Man who loves outdoor sex.

The former Geordie Shore favourite, 27, believes Londoner Stephen is her Mr Right and plans to marry him.

 Charlotte Crosby says she has found her soulmate in Stephen Bear
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Charlotte Crosby says she has found her soulmate in Stephen BearCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd

And she has revealed that it was during a romantic holiday to Barcelona that she realised he really was the man for her.

Charlotte explains: “We got home to the hotel, kept drinking, then went out on the balcony and made love on the chairs under the moon.

“It was beautiful. I had red lipstick on and I got it all over his face.”

 Charlotte has been dating former Celebrity Big Brother winner since late last year
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Charlotte has been dating former Celebrity Big Brother winner since late last yearCredit: Alamy

In her raucous and heartbreaking new autobiography Brand New Me, which covers her rise from TV reality star to fitness guru and bestselling author, she reveals she fell so hard for Stephen when they first met — but that she made him wait more than a week for sex.

She says: “It was really worth it. It was soooo good.

“He has a gorgeous body. He’s like a little Action Man and has loads of abs — I don’t know how many but he definitely has more than a six-pack.”

 Charlotte and Stephen seem to never be off our TV screens
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Charlotte and Stephen seem to never be off our TV screensCredit: Rex Features

Charlotte first hit it off with Shipwrecked and Ex On The Beach hunk Stephen, 27, on the set of reality show Just Tattoo Of Us last December — and now the loved-up pair are planning to move in together.

She says of their time on the programme: “If there was a camera in our dressing room there would have been a whole different show from the one that aired on MTV.

“Me and Stephen couldn’t keep our hands off each other. When we got in the dressing room and no one was looking we were all over each other. It was so exciting, so full-on.”

Gushing about Stephen — who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, three years after she did — Charlotte says: “We have one type of kissing called the tongue tornado, where you don’t touch lips but swirl your tongues around each other.

“We have another called the postage stamp, where the two tongues press on to each other flat, like they’re stamping down. We do them all the time while we’re filming and everyone gets annoyed.”

 Kissing... Charlotte talks in detail about how her and Bear get close
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Kissing... Charlotte talks in detail about how her and Bear get closeCredit: Alamy

But they also had their first major row on the show. The couple had to design a tattoo for each other in the final episode.

Stephen designed one that was half the face of a bear and the other half a cheetah that was tattooed ​discreetly on Charlotte’s back.

But in a bid to make the episode a bit more explosive he said he had included the big cat ​because Charlotte had cheated on her ex-boyfriend with him.

Charlotte says: “He said it on national TV, it was awful. I ran off in tears and he didn’t even comfort me.”

Looking back she says: “Maybe I did overreact a bit, it’s not like he cheated on me. Now I look at the tattoo and realise its quite ​beautiful.”​

 Charlotte and Bear on the set of their reality TV show Just Tattoo Of Us
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Charlotte and Bear on the set of their reality TV show Just Tattoo Of UsCredit: PA:Press Association

Charlotte dropped FOUR dress sizes in late 2014 and her fitness DVD, Charlotte’s 3 Minute Belly Blitz, was the best-selling EVER — but she never deprives herself of treats.

Just days after getting together with Stephen she returned to her home town of Sunderland for a pub crawl on Christmas Eve with her girlfriends — and they ended up having a pool party at her new mansion.

In her revealing book, Charlotte says: “At 7am on Christmas morning we found people collapsed all over the place and a random couple shagging by the pool.

"I don’t even know who they were. I think we met them at the kebab shop and brought them back with us.”

Charlotte describes Stephen as “the funniest, most gorgeous, sexiest, kindest person I have ever met” — and her best friend.

She says: “I think we’re gonna get married. We can’t leave each other’s side. This must be what having a soulmate is like. I am so happy.”

 Charlotte regularly uploads selfies to her Instagram account
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Charlotte regularly uploads selfies to her Instagram accountCredit: Instagram

As well as finding love and settling down, her career has gone from strength to strength following her amazing body transformation and fitness DVD success.

But she has also faced tragedy.

In April last year she was rushed to hospital in agony and nearly died due to a devastating ectopic pregnancy — when a fertilised egg implants outside the womb — with her ex, Geordie Shore’s Gary Beadle, 29.

 Geordie Shore viewers watched Charlotte and Gaz's tempestuous relationship
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Geordie Shore viewers watched Charlotte and Gaz's tempestuous relationshipCredit: Planet Photos

It led her to become a patron of the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust, which helps women in similar situations.

Charlotte says: “The doctor told me I could have died, which I still can’t get my head around, and I was scared I might not be able to have kids. I never could have imagined that something so horrible could end up helping so many people.

“I’d had emails and messages saying how much I’d helped other women, but until I met the people from the Trust, I didn’t realise how much ignorance there is around ectopic pregnancy.

“The important signs to look out for are abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding. Don’t ignore these like I did, get medical advice straight away.”

Among her many TV appearances, last summer Charlotte featured on E4’s Celebs Go Dating, where famous faces date ordinary punters.

Charlotte was paired with one fella called Jeavon.

She says: “We went on a picnic but it went very sour. Firstly, I didn’t fancy him at all. Then, just to pass the time, I asked him how many girls he’d been with in the past.

“I said I didn’t want an exact number but asked him to say higher or lower than the number I gave him.

“When I got to 50 he told me to stop and said he’d probably slept with that many girls ‘in 11 years’.

“That didn’t bother me. What did was when he turned the tables on me and I told him I’d shagged around 20 lads. He looked at me with the worst disapproving face ever.

“I said, ‘What’s the issue? Is that bad for a girl?’ and he replied, ‘That is bad. For a lad it’s not that bad’.

“Is he for real? Talk about double standards!

“I was fuming by this point. What a hypocrite! I told him, ‘Apart from my boyfriends, that’s like having sex with one person a year. That is not bad!’

“I told him, ‘You brought a s*** picnic and you said I’m a slag. There was a threat of rain earlier and now I wish it had rained and I wouldn’t have had to sit through this’.”

As well as her TV work Charlotte also has her own clothing range In The Style, which has won a fashion award, and she has s launched a make-up range with Easilocks called Fliqué.

She even became mates with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver while filming Food Revolution, his bid to get people to eat more healthily.

Charlotte joined other celebs for a Facebook Live event with Jamie in May last year and she says: “He kept saying we should do a show together, like a really rude, late-night one where we get drunk and can say what we want.

“He said we should call it Meat And Two Veg!

“He’s so funny. I really enjoyed it. He said he had a single mate called Andy who’s an electrician.

He said I should go out with him and he would cater our wedding if we hit it off! How amazing was that?”

 Charlotte and Stephen recently celebrated her birthday at a posh hotel
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Charlotte and Stephen recently celebrated her birthday at a posh hotelCredit: Rex Features

Yet away from the camera the bubbly star admits she is relentlessly abused by online trolls about her appearance and describes how it has at times left her feeling “disgusting”.

Charlotte was born with the rare condition symmastia, which has left her with a “uniboob” — where the breasts come together at the centre of the chest and merge.

She says: “It didn’t bother me until I tweeted a picture of me in a low-cut dress and loads of people started saying, “Ewww, what has she done to her boobs? They are weird”.

“So I got a bit of a complex and now I can’t ever wear V-necks.”

 Charlotte Crosby and Stephen Bear are the hottest new couple in reality TV and she is confident it will last
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Charlotte Crosby and Stephen Bear are the hottest new couple in reality TV and she is confident it will lastCredit: Instagram

The abuse can sometimes make her struggle to remain positive and knocks her confidence.

Speaking openly in the book she reveals: “I know I get compliments, where people say I look great, but every day I get a hundred comments slagging me off, saying I’m fat or I’m ugly or I have bad skin.

“I have so many horrible things said about me, it’s normal that they make me feel ugly and disgusting.

“You don’t ever remember the nice things. I try to tell myself it doesn’t matter and I don’t care. But it does –– and I do.”

  • Brand New Me, by Charlotte Crosby will be published by Headline on Thursday, priced £16.99
 Charlotte Crosby's new book Brand New Me is out this Thursday
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Charlotte Crosby's new book Brand New Me is out this Thursday

Shore things

CHARLOTTE shot to fame in 2011 as one of the founding members of Geordie Shore – the MTV reality show set in Newcastle – alongside Vicky Pattison and Marnie Simpson.

Her on-off relationship with Gary Beadle had viewers gripped.

She hit the big time when she won Celebrity Big Brother in December 2013 – having hosted the BBC1 Teen Awards the previous month.

In 2014 she landed her own travel show on TLC, The Charlotte Crosby Experience, and followed that with guest appearances on This Morning, Celebrity Juice and Xtra Factor.

She also appeared as a celebrity homeowner on ITV’s Through the Keyhole in 2015.

She popped up as Gary Beadle’s former love on Ex on the Beach and fronted Charlotte Crosby’s Propa Mint Party on Chart Show TV.

In 2016 she featured in E4’s Celebs Go Dating, where ordinary people got the chance to date celebrities, and this year she and Stephen have fronted Just Tattoo Of Us on MTV.

Her business venture sidelines have helped her amass a £1.6million fortune.

Her first autobiography, ME ME ME,was published in July 2015 and spent five weeks at the top spot.

At the end of 2014 Charlotte broke records with the release of her first fitness DVD, Charlotte’s 3 Minute Belly Blitz.

It became the UK’s fastest selling fitness DVD, with 101,000 copies snapped up in just four weeks, and topped the official sports and fitness chart.

The following year she released Charlotte’s 3 Minute Bum Blitz and in 2016 published health and fitness book Live Fast, Lose Weight: Fat to Fit.

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