‘How I’ve missed you!’ Millie Mackintosh enjoys alfresco lunch date with husband Hugo Taylor

She recently admitted she felt ‘a bit ashamed of her postpartum body’.

And Millie Mackintosh was in good spirits as she enjoyed an alfresco meal with husband Hugo Taylor in London on Sunday.

The former Made In Chelsea star, 31, happily posed for the camera as she made the most of the sunshine while tucking into a delicious-looking pizza.

Millie donned a cream-coloured woolly cardigan and a pair of sunglasses as she held a glass of bubbly in her left hand.

She captioned the post: ‘Alfresco dining… how I’ve missed you!’

Restaurants across the UK began reopening their outdoor dining to customers on Monday as part of the government’s roadmap out of lockdown.  

Millie later took to her Instagram Stories to share a snap of Hugo, 34, who appeared to be enjoying a beer and olives.

‘Alfresco pizza date with my [heart emoji],’ she added. 

In a recent Women’s Health interview, Millie spoke about being a first time mum, her postpartum figure, and her 11-month-old daughter Sienna’s hip dysplasia.

The star candidly revealed she struggled to even look in the mirror the first three months after Sienna’s birth.

‘It was honestly quite hard to see my body after a baby,’ she said. ‘And I think it is for a lot of women. It can really feel like a shock and something that’s hard to love, maybe – and hard to feel good about.

‘I did feel self-conscious when I went out and wouldn’t want anything to be tight to my tummy. 

‘And yeah, I did feel a bit ashamed of my postpartum body. And it’s kind of sad that I felt that. It feels good to admit that and say, ‘Yeah, I did struggle looking in the mirror for the first three months.’

But Millie, who has worked hard and gradually reintroducing her fitness regime and nutrition in the months after Sienna’s birth, has said she has learnt to love her figure.

Joking that she’s ‘mainly lived in a tracksuit for the last year’ due to the pandemic, she added: ‘[My figure] definitely won’t go back to being exactly the same as before and I’m okay with that… I feel more womanly, and I’m really loving it.’

The brunette beauty also touched upon receiving Sienna’s hip dysplasia diagnosis.

The diagnosis meant that Sienna had to wear a special harness for six to 12 weeks in order to treat the dysplasia, making it hard for Millie to cuddle and breastfeed her.

She explained: ‘It was a really difficult and scary time. The stress of going from having quite a child baby to a baby that’s just crying and upset and you can’t do anything.

‘It was really heartbreaking. But as she’s crawling normally and doing well, we’re hopeful and remaining positive that her hips are healthy. They caught the condition early, so it shouldn’t affect her later in life.’

Millie also described what it was like becoming a mother to her little girl as she said: ‘It’s like crazy stupid love. Your life is turned upside down. [I’ve] just never felt the love like it – it’s crazy how much your heart opens, and yeah, she’s incredible.’ 

The reality personality also recently opened up about how she struggled with the baby blues following Sienna’s birth on Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast. 

Revealing that occasionally she felt ‘completely blue’ and out of control when it came to her emotions, Millie said: ‘A couple of hours later I could just be feeling completely blue, really low, couldn’t stop crying…

‘There were days when it was hard with Hugo as he would be like are you ok? And then I would be like oh god I need you to tell me I’m ok don’t you freak out about me not being ok!’ 

She went on: ‘At the time, what I found really scary was that I didn’t know what it was. I like to be quite in control and I couldn’t gauge whether I did have post-natal depression or whether it was the baby blues.

‘Because people talk about the baby blues and oh you are going to be a bit tearful and it is really normal to be a bit up and down, but I had some really low days and it was hard because I was so in love with Sienna and so happy.’