YUMMY mummy Louise Redknapp has confessed she NEEDS air brushing to look sexier in photos.

The sexy singer and the new body of Triumph lingerie pulled the curtain down on her stunning new shots by revealing the amount of RETOUCHING behind the snaps.

She said: "Jamie will be flicking through a mag and there will be me looking slim and svelte and perfect and then he'll look over and I'm like 'Ok don't say anything!'

"It's kind of not me though. Lots of things go into that, lots of work... of course there's a bit of air brushing... great lighting... and always choose a fantastic photographer."

But honest Louise, 33, exposed the TRUE state of her figure to Heat Radio as she awaits her second son to join 4-year-old Charley in October.

"Can I just say I'm not pretty with the dress off. It's slightly worrying... it's hard... I find it really hard being pregnant, I can't lie," she admitted.

Louise had to shrug off endometriosis, a condition that causes fertility problems, in order to conceive with the football pundit she married in 1998.

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