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Rebecca Adlington: "I will always be insecure"

Former Olympic swimming champion Rebecca Adlington believes that she will always feel insecure about her appearance.

Recently retired swimmer Rebecca Adlington has confessed that she will always feel "insecure" over her physical appearance.

The former Olympic champion, who recently appeared on 'I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here', has been abused on Twitter about her looks, while comedian Frankie Boyle once said that she "looks pretty weird".

The 24-year-old told Time Magazine: "When I look in the mirror, it's not the person who I want to be. Every day I look in the mirror and go, 'God, I'm not pretty'.

"I've got a very big nose. That's what most of the negative comments on Twitter are about, my nose. People say, 'Oh God you look like a dolphin,' or 'I didn't realise they let whales into the Olympics, but at least you should be able to swim faster with a nose like that'.

"I will always be insecure and I will always look in the mirror and wish I was a pretty girl. I've always known I'm not particularly attractive. I don't have high cheekbones and I've got big fishy lips. I don't have a womanly figure, people say I'm butch , manly."

Adlington won gold medals in the 400m and 800m freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, before taking bronzes in the same events in London last year.

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