LOUISE Redknapp has admitted to feeling so insecure that she takes 50 attempts to capture a single Instagram photo. The Eternal singer, 46, insisted she suffers the same anxieties as her 717,000 followers and can’t help but compare herself to other online figures. She said: “I look at social media and I wanna be like […]
LOUISE Redknapp has admitted to feeling so insecure that she takes 50 attempts to capture a single Instagram photo.
The Eternal singer, 46, insisted she suffers the same anxieties as her 717,000 followers and can’t help but compare herself to other online figures.
She said: “I look at social media and I wanna be like every woman I see on there.
“I know people will be like, ‘well, what the hell, we look at your pictures and want to be like you’. I’m doing exactly that as well.
“Don’t think I’m sitting there looking at my Instagram going, ‘yeah I’ve got this, I made it, look how great I am’.
“I’m looking at my Instagram going, ‘that took me 50 pictures to get that and a really great light and a million and one other things’. I’m doing that as well.”
Louise added that she finds it difficult to resist reading comments about herself left online and on social media, even though she knows there will be abuse from trolls.
She told Headliners on BBC Sounds: “The onslaught is so huge and you can tell yourself all day long not to read the comments, ‘don’t read them’.
“But there’s something in you that just does, and you know what you’re going to read. It’s like Russian roulette.”
However, Louise – who recently published her soul-bearing book You’ve Got This – issued a warning to trolls that she won’t stand for their abuse any longer.
She said: “My tolerance of dealing with nasty things is at an all time low.”
As well as her social media ordeals, Louise recently admitted that she hasn’t had much luck on dating apps following her split with footballer Jamie Redknapp in 2017.
She said: “I had what I thought was a good chat with a guy, and then one day he asked me what I was up to.
“I said, ‘Oh, I’m just going for a bike ride’. And that was the end of that. It’s been five months and no reply.
“Basically, this is a way to say the new world of dating is so opaque and difficult to navigate.
“It’s easy to feel you’ve done or said something wrong, when in reality it’s not on you.”
Louise also opened up about being deserted by her celebrity pals when she and Jamie, 47, separated.
