“I’m glad that I worked as hard as what I did when I was 17 and I didn’t have a baby. Now I can just not work as hard.”
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Life in the public eye can lead to pressure to look a certain way, ‘Are you happy with your body image?’ we ask the star. “Yes I am - I definitely am,” Nadine replies. “I think it’s something you can obsess over, you can look and think: ‘I don’t have a six pack’ or ‘I don’t have whatever’, but what are you going to do? If you really want a six pack, well then you have to spend most of your day working for it and set your diet, and there’s a huge compromise involved. I’m not willing to compromise; I don’t mind the fact I don’t have a six pack, I’ll survive.” There is something Nadine admits she couldn’t survive without and that is lip liner. “I always, always have to have a lip liner in my bag; I love it. My top three makeup products are lip liner, concealer and bronzer. “For skincare I use Dermalogica special cleansing wash and that’s really good because it takes away makeup and breaks everything down. I have been using Egyptian Magic recently to try it out. If you
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are on holidays or in a hot climate you can use that for your hair too; it’s good for hair, face and body - all from one massive tub.” ‘You look amazing. What do you do to keep in shape?’ we ask. “I love to swim as often as I can which is such a good all-over body workout,” Nadine says. “I love any boot camp style stuff and high impact exercises with 20 or 30 seconds on and off – those are the type of workouts I tend to go for. I hate spinning classes, they are hell on earth for me!”
Derry Girls
According to reports Nadine will star in the second series of Derry Girls. Commenting on that she says: “I’m talking to the Derry Girls writer Lisa Magee. We have been chatting about the next season and I think we are going to try to do something that means we can work together. So fingers crossed. I loved the first series and we will see what we can do for the next series – that would be amazing.” The Derry native is currently based in England. Nadine says: “At the minute I am in my house in London. I love Ireland and I love going back there. I work a lot from London so I am here a lot. We have a place in New York, Jason still works a lot out of
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New York and his family are still in LA. So we keep ourselves busy; we still travel around a lot. “Right now I’m really looking forward to coming back to Belfast and seeing all of the fans from before, and the new ones too. We are going to have a really, really great night. I will be performing songs from the EP, I’ll be performing old songs and new songs as well so it will be a really fun night.” n