OUTWARDLY, Frankie Bridge is the epitome of celebrity — dazzling smile, super-stylish crop haircut and perfectly groomed with a loose top cleverly disguising her pregnancy bump — but it’s what’s not on show which is perhaps more revealing of this singer and dancer.

On her neck, the member of girl band, The Saturdays and runner-up in last year’s Strictly Come Dancing, has a tattoo of the words Sunshine and Showers, which she believes sums up her personality and could also aptly describe her life.

While she’s enjoyed fame from an early age — she was only an elfin-faced 12-year-old when she joined S Club Juniors — she’s also battled depression and most recently had her second pregnancy blighted by hyperemesis gravidarum, the condition causing extreme nausea and vomiting also suffered by the Duchess of Cambridge.

“Sunshine and showers is the nickname my nan gave me as a kid and it’s the perfect way to describe me. There’s no grey area with me at all. I’m a ‘love it or hate it’ kind of person, either really loud or really quiet, and things are either fantastic or rubbish,” declares the 26-year-old.

There’s no doubting she’s in a ‘sunshine’ phase now as she and her ex-footballer husband, Wayne, 34, await the arrival of a brother or sister for their 18-month-old son, Parker, in August.

“I’m feeling so much better now but it hasn’t been an easy pregnancy,” she grimaces, recalling the worst weeks of illness when she was nearly hospitalised, and in January forced to pull out of the Strictly dance tour.

“I was terribly upset at not being able to tour with Strictly although at least, thanks to Kate (Middleton), everyone understood what I was suffering from."

In 2012 Frankie bravely stepped into the spotlight to open up about her battle with depression.

“I spoke up about my difficulties with anxiety and depression to try to help change people’s view of those problems and improve understanding," she says.

"You need to be brave about doing it because you know you’ll get negative stuff aimed at you by ignorant people, and I did, but it’s all about toughening up and rising above that. It was worth it,” she says happily.“

"The condition kicked in at around six weeks and I was so ill, they wanted to admit me to hospital. The only reason I didn’t go is that I literally couldn’t bear the thought of the journey in the car to get there. Weirdly, I had a phobia of being sick until this happened and the only silver lining is that being ill so often has cured me of that! At one point I just lay on the floor because even moving my eyes made me feel ill.”