Gemma Atkinson wowed herself with her very own Emmerdale throwback featuring some of her former co-stars. The former soap star took to her Instagram Story on Tuesday (May 2) with the snap after she was reminded that it was on this day a number of years ago it was taken.
It showed former soap star Gemma, now 38, all glammed up in a blue, high-neck jumpsuit with her blonde locks tied up into a classy updo. She was stood alongside Amy Walsh, Michelle Hardwick and Laura Norten who are all currently on maternity leave from the ITV soap.
Gemma, who played Carly Hope in Emmerdale from 2015 to 2017, wrote: "7 years ago today," alongside the image with an emoji appearing to show her shock about how much time had passed.
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The pregnant mum-of-one then quipped: "When we knew what clean hair and sleep was like," alongside a crying laughing emoji, referring to the face that they have all become mums since that photo was taken back in 2016.
The post came before Gemma shared her joy as she achieved a 'small win' before heading out to work at Hits Radio where she hosts the drivetime show alongside Mike Toolan. The Bury-born star finally completed a puzzle she started back in March.
At the time, Gemma told her followers that she was using some of her rare free time to get stuck into a one-thousand-piece puzzle in a bid to challenge her mental strength instead of hitting the gym and challenging her body like she would usually do.
But she later went on to share a string of hilarious videos in which she documented the 'stages' of doing a jigsaw from the initial joy to the despair when it doesn't quite come together as fast as you hoped it would. And it even got the pregnant star hot under the collar. "Well, that was stressful. It wasn't as therapeutic as I thought," she admitted in a later video.
Admitting a blunder, she said: "I had to take my top off, my bra. I had to get my saggy maggies out. The postman was looking at me, like I am bloody not right. I said to him put it down, take the picture and go, you've got to go, I have to focus. Some of the edges are missing - it's not that I couldn't find them! It's that some of them are missing..."
She has since been updating her followers on her progress as they became invested in her puzzle chronicles and on Tuesday, she finally had a new update. "I can leave for work satisfied now," she typed alongside a crying laughing emoji over her video.
"Finally!! All done. To be fair, I would have been a lot quicker had I had the time and I missed 10 days being [on] holiday so I'm chuffed." She then added: "Small win," alongside a string of crying laughing emojis.
Speaking in the video, a fresh-faced Gemma, who is expecting her second child with her Strictly star fiance Gorka Marquez this summer, said: "I finished me jigsaw. I've done it, but..." after a pause she confessed: "There are two pieces missing!" As she laughed, she continued: "But it's done. There's a piece missing here and a piece missing there but nothing's perfect, is it? It's finally done.
"A thousand-piece jigsaw, done. I set myself a target [of] before little man arrives and I've done it. What now? What next? Nothing. I've done it."
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