LOVE Island’s Maura Higgins bragged about getting her “a** kicked” in training on Instagram – despite claiming she doesn’t go to the gym.
The 28-year-old beauty shocked viewers in last night’s episode when she insisted that she is just “lucky” to have her enviable body.
The Irish grid girl was put out when her date Tom Walker said that his type was “athletic brunettes”.
The newcomer added: “I like a girl who trains, I like a gym girl, you’ve got a good body.”
Maura replied: “Thanks, I don’t go to the gym but I am going to pretend I didn’t hear that.
“I eat like 50 pizzas a week.”
When Tom exclaimed: “You’re tiny!”, the coy beauty replied: “Yeah, well, I’m just lucky.”
However, Maura’s Instagram account tells a different story, with the Islander regularly flaunting her toned body with fitness hashtags in the past.
In one particularly telling post, Maura has her abs on display as she poses in a sport’s bra and underwear in front of a mirror.
Tagging her personal trainer in the caption, the star wrote: “Time to get my ass kicked by @jgelite_ after a weekend of bingeing.”
Some of the hashtags she added include: #MyFitnessJourney #WeightTraining #PersonalTrainer #HardWorkPaysOff #InstaFit and #GirlsWhoLift.
The revelation probably won’t come as a surprise for dubious fans, who flocked to social media during last night’s show to share their cynicism of Maura’s claim.
Maura also sparked speculation that she’d had a bum lift when before and after photos of her booty were found on an Instagram Transformation page.
While the images don’t show Maura’s face in its entirety, the star is identifiable by the tattoo which runs down the side of her hip.
The post read: “Check out @maurahiggins #GluteGainz after a very hard six weeks.”
But fans questioned whether she had some extra help with surgery given her quick turnaround.
She has also been accused of undergoing several cosmetic procedures after photos of her taken in 2012 emerged online.
In the snaps, Maura looks remarkably different, with thinner lips and fewer curves.
Maura’s mum has since hit back at claims that her daughter has had several cosmetic procedures, insisting that Maura’s looks have simply “matured” over the years and she has only had lip fillers.
She told Longford Leader: “She’s 28 now. She has matured. She never got plastic surgery ever.
“The only thing she ever got done – and she never hid it, she had it up on her own Instagram – was she got some lip filler. Because she had quite thin lips.”
Maura has caused a stir since joining the Love Island villa last week, even being accused of “sexually harassing” boxer Tommy Fury after she repeatedly tried to kiss him despite his resistance.
The 20-year-old hunk decided to stick with Molly-Mae Hague during Sunday night’s re-coupling ceremony in spite of Maura’s advances, leaving the bombshell single in the villa as she was whisked off to enjoy dates with Tom and fellow newbie Jordan Hames.
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