Myleene Klass vows to keep posing for sexy snaps as she hits 40
The model and pianist says she has no intention of covering up – and she doesn’t care what her critics say
SHE may be about to turn 40 but Myleene Klass has no intention of covering up – and she doesn’t care what her critics say.
Despite her age-defying body, even pianist and model Myleene has cruel online trolls telling her to “put it away”.
But the feisty former pop singer, who recently posed for an Instagram snap in just her undies and heels, said: “People try to tell me all day long, ‘I don’t like your hair’, ‘Why have you got your a*** out?’.
“I’m like, ‘Sorry, your opinions do not pay my mortgage, therefore they are null and void’.
“My body has made two amazing children, I’m nearly 40 years old, I can play the piano — you can say whatever you like to me but can you play a Rachmaninoff concerto?”
Speaking to The Sun ahead of her 40th next month, Myleene was on typically ballsy form — and keen to defend her new fitness DVD, released last month just as the whole industry came under fire.
The Sun on Sunday revealed how former Gogglebox star Scarlett Moffatt, 27, cheated fans by achieving her weight loss results from starving herself and visiting a bootcamp in the run-up to her DVD shoot.
Other celebs including Vicky Pattison, 30, and Lauren Goodger, 31, have since been outed for misleading punters in a similar way.
But Myleene insists her 12-week MyBody programme is the real deal without any false results — and you only need to glance back at how good she has looked over the years to believe her.
Her fans had been urging her to make a workout DVD for more than a decade. But it was not until November 2016 — when she saw a double-page spread celebrating her ageless appearance in The Sun — that she decided to take the plunge.
She says: “I set about doing this video because you guys ran a quiz where you put out nine photos and asked readers to match Myleene to the year the photo was taken.
“You said I hadn’t changed, and that was my deciding moment. We decided to do it because it shows I’ve maintained the same shape.
“I think that shows I’m not a quick fix kind of girl and not somebody selling a magic pill to get the results.
“I just shoot from the hip, I speak as I find. It’s the truth. My DVD might not be, ‘Look how I lost four stone’, it’s more a case of, ‘What I’m doing is maintaining a shape and it is also achievable’.”
Myleene has no time for fad diets pushed by some Z-listers.
She says: “I’m horrified that some people have been told such mistruths, because that’s feeding on people’s fear and that’s feeding on people’s insecurities.
“I’m a mum, and you don’t do that to people and you don’t do that to women. Women boss the world.
“It’s a cruel way to lure somebody into feeling good about themselves — and they should feel good about themselves all ready.”
Myleene accepts that her fitness DVD will once again make her a target for trolls, who come out to attack almost everything she does.
But she says her thick skin, developed from her days in pop band Hear’Say, has helped her deal with her detractors.
She says: “Whatever you want to say to me, these hands earn and graft for my kids and for myself and that gives me self-gratification.
“I know what I can do, I know what I’m capable of.
“You get one life, one chance at this. I’m not wasting it and I’m not going to sit in a corner and worry about what some troll who has never met me thinks.
“I love that I don’t want to waste a single day. I’ve got two kids to raise and I want them to see a badass mum. I don’t want them to see some snowflake.”
Myleene has daughters Ava, ten, and Hero, six, from her marriage to bodyguard Graham Quinn, which ended in 2013.
She is now settled with boyfriend of two years Simon Motson, who works in PR and also has two children.
When Myleene is not posing for sizzling photoshoots she is often jetting around the globe performing classical numbers for the rich and famous, often with Simon by her side.
Her most recent excursion took her to the shores of Lake Como in Italy to play a private show for a billionaire.
She says: “These are gigs in places that you never necessarily would get to play at, circumstances that you would never perform in, because if they want a waterfall next to you, they have a waterfall.
“They can have everything they like, it’s just magical. It’s something to be able to go home and tell your kids about it.
“My boyfriend came to the last one and he enjoyed it. He just holds the champagne.”
Her credentials as a classical musician have earned her chart-topping albums and a place as one of the nation’s best-loved radio DJs on Classic FM.
So she is well placed to return to hosting the Classic Brit Awards, on June 13 at The Royal Albert Hall, alongside Pointless presenter Alexander Armstrong, 48.
She says: “Classical music is one of the world’s most extraordinary hidden secrets. Is it sexy? Of course it is.
“There’s nothing sexier than a phenomenal piece of music that has lasted through the ages and had women swooning back in the day.”
Myleene credits Ed Sheeran and Andrea Bocelli’s reworking of Ed’s 2017 Christmas No1 Perfect for giving the classical genre a boost.
She says: “It’s nice that it gets a makeover. Classical music is getting a makeover whether it is through Ed Sheeran and Andrea Bocelli or Bono or Pavarotti or myself tinkling the ivories.”
She has even passed on her musical passion to Simon.
She says: “I’ve taught him a few pieces on the piano and he’s really good, he’s doing really well.
“We’ve gone to a few operas together and he’s been to a lot of the shows I’ve done.
“Now he can pick out a few composers, so I’ll play a piece and the girls and him get really competitive trying to guess who it is by.”
While she limbers up for her hosting duties at the Classic Brit Awards, Myleene will no doubt treat fans to more cheeky snaps on social media — even though many are more interested in the background furniture and how they can get hold of it.
Joking about a recent revealing shot on an exercise bike, above — taken on location during a magazine shoot — she says: “Do you know what, I’ve had more questions about the sofa than I have about the exercise bike.
“It did make me laugh. Everyone thinks it’s my house. I’m like, ‘Dude, I don’t know where this sofa came from’.”
But one thing we do know is Myleene keeps getting better with age — and she is not going to hide it.