{"id":100628,"date":"2023-12-06T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/?p=100628"},"modified":"2023-12-06T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:33:29","slug":"secret-messages-hidden-in-helen-flanaghans-sexy-selfies-and-how-she-silences-mum-shamers-who-call-her-trashy-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/fashion\/secret-messages-hidden-in-helen-flanaghans-sexy-selfies-and-how-she-silences-mum-shamers-who-call-her-trashy-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret messages hidden in Helen Flanaghan's sexy selfies and how she silences mum-shamers who call her 'trashy' | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
A PICTURE can say a thousand words, and barely a day goes by without Helen Flanagan posting a stunning selfie or gorgeous family snap – so it seems there's a lot the star <\/strong>has to tell her fans. <\/strong><\/p>\n The ITV Coronation Street actress, 33, has grown up in the spotlight, undergoing an obvious transformation from child soap star to glamour puss model and proud parent… but how much have you really picked up on? <\/p>\n As her life has evolved over the years so have Helen's poses and selfies – revealing plenty of potentially cryptic messages fans may have missed. <\/p>\n While she's previously been labelled 'trashy' by mum-shamers commenting on her lingerie posts, experts say there's more to them than meets the eye. <\/p>\n Speaking exclusively to Fabulous online, body language expert Judi James says: "Helen\u2019s body language suggests a narrative that is common with child stars. <\/p>\n "She seems to have inherited a strong desire to please, which appears from some of her eye expressions and her micro-gestures and subtler non-verbal signals to be in conflict with doing what actually pleases her.<\/p>\n "Her emotional \u2018sweet spots\u2019 seem to come from her acting, being a mother and being a bride. <\/p>\n "She hit the buffers on the bridal front and her \u2018go-to\u2019 response before and after is her glamour work. <\/p>\n "This is something she is clearly easily successful at, although after her daughter\u2019s birth she developed a trait of empathy: seeing what she does through the eyes of her daughter, and this does seem to cause some kind of conflict for her.<\/p>\n "Helen\u2019s Marilyn Monroe tattoo might also provide a huge hint to her personality and emotional needs. <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n "Like Marilyn she has a natural talent with her beauty and her body.<\/p>\n "But there are clues that, like Marilyn, her authentic happiness comes from relationships, and parenthood."<\/p>\n Here, we take a closer look at Helen's transformation over the years, and what her body language and poses reveal…<\/p>\n After leaving Weatherfield for the first time in 2012 and free from the constraints of being a soap star, Helen, then 21, started to ramp up her modelling career, posing first for a Specsavers campaign. <\/p>\n Judi says: "Helen\u2019s body language here is demure and very \u2018girl-next-door\u2019 wholesome, with the sexual body poses looking almost accidental.<\/p>\n "Here eyes are as wide as her smile and the hand to face gesture looks coy.<\/p>\n "Her head is tilted, signalling a desire to be liked, but not a desire to shock."<\/p>\n Later that same year Helen – who started dating her now ex-fianc\u00e9 Scott Sinclair in 2009 – entered the I'm A Celebrity Jungle, and was eventually eliminated fifth. <\/p>\n Judi says: "Helen got to showcase her incredible body in a very family-friendly way via these classic shower scenes on I'm A Celeb. <\/p>\n "This exposure allowed her to blend her personality with her \u2018pleasing\u2019 tendencies of showcasing her body but without losing However later that same year the actress caused a real stir – by posing in lingerie with a gun held to her head, and inadvertently reposting it just after a shooting in the US. <\/p>\n Judi adds: "Child stars making the transition into adult stars with often make the leap with overkill body language rituals. <\/p>\n "They often want to shuck off the \u2018sweet kid\u2019 branding as quickly and as emphatically as possible with some often shocking and controversial body language statements.<\/p>\n "That looked like Helen\u2019s version and there\u2019s a hint of fear that The following year things began to really hot up for Helen, and she won FHM's sexiest woman in the UK poll in 2013, posing for her first ever sexy shoot. <\/p>\n Commenting on her mag front cover, Judi says: "Her body language in this \u2018playful\u2019 pose looks designed for her by the photographer or stylist rather than congruent and natural. <\/p>\n "It\u2019s teasing and it makes a great cover but her eye expression suggests it\u2019s not showing the real Helen.<\/p>\n "Helen\u2019s body language becomes incongruent or contradictory in these poses that announce a total shift to glamour. <\/p>\n "Her eye expression often looks teasing but a lot of the time she has her fingers to her mouth in a gesture of insecurity and her cardi sleeves pulled up over her fingers in a suggestion of a desire to hide." <\/p>\n In complete contrast to her public profile, when Helen became a mum to first daughter Matilda with Scott in 2015, the tone of her family photos were completely different. <\/p>\n Helen and Scott are also parents Delilah, born in 2018, and Charlie, born in 2021 – and Judi believes it's Helen's family album pics that show the real, happy her. <\/p>\n Judi says: "In contrast with the concealed eye expressions and the sexual projections this seems to be a key body language sweet spot for Helen. <\/p>\n "With her new baby she has no need to hide behind sexual poses and masks of make-up. <\/p>\n "Natural and bare-faced, we are shown the truth of her feelings here because they are ones of genuine happiness at last. <\/p>\n "Her eyes are revealed because this is an authentic eye smile with no need to overact. <\/p>\n "She looks fulfilled, confident and congruent." <\/p>\n Despite the attempts to distance herself from her former soap fame, Helen then returned to Corrie in 2017. <\/p>\n However, she made it obvious her old Rosie Webster image was still long gone, by posing for a very grown-up, sophisticated shoot. <\/p>\n Judi says: "Helen seemed to have thrown herself into an attempt to erase every trace of the child star before her return to the Street. <\/p>\n "Here, she is only covering her breasts with one hand and her pose looks as sultry as her facial expression. <\/p>\n "It suggests she wants to go back on her own terms. <\/p>\n "However the eye-narrowing gesture hides her signature pale blue eyes – suggesting a possible inner lack of confidence that she is trying to hide and mask." <\/p>\n In the past Helen has felt the need to defend her decision to pose for more risque shoots, saying: "There\u2019s nothing wrong with doing lingerie shoots. <\/p>\n "And my glamour modelling was always tasteful and fun." <\/p>\n Sadly Helen and footie ace Scott split in July 2022 after 14 years together – and it seems like Helen has struggled to move on, still wearing her engagement ring after the break-up and posting photos in wedding dresses. <\/p>\n Judi says: "Helen\u2019s other fulfilment in life might have been not a "She opted to pose in her wedding dress for International Women\u2019s Day and posting an idealised app-produced wedding pic, where she looks like a doll bride. <\/p>\n "After a relationship split, celebs usually pose in a revenge dress but only Helen has made that a wedding dress. <\/p>\n "She seems to be announcing to the world that all she ever needed for happiness was her children and a wedding. <\/p>\n "She seems to be telling herself that her heartbreak has made her stronger with these \u2018who needs a man?\u2019 poses.<\/p>\n "Helen\u2019s trait of the wedding dresses and of still wearing her engagement ring looks defiant but it suggests she might struggle moving forward in her life." <\/p>\n Despite this, a source recently told The Sun she is ready to find love again, saying: "Helen\u2019s officially back on the dating scene.<\/p>\n "She\u2019s been seeing someone on\/off for a while but has said they\u2019re better off as friends, but she did really like dating him.<\/p>\n "Everything\u2019s really casual and she\u2019s taking things slow – she doesn\u2019t want anything serious."<\/p>\n Finally, since having children, Helen has proudly continued to flaunt her fabulous figure and remained true to herself – however this has also meant she's often been the victim of vile 'mum-shaming' trolls online. <\/p>\n Not that she lets this get to her, as her selfies show. <\/p>\n Judi says: "Helen is emerging as a confident, fulfilled woman who is more in control of her life and hopefully her career. <\/p>\n "There are so many moments over the years when her happiness and her body language signals align and if she is still channelling Marilyn now it seems to be the Marilyn who was controlling her own career and progressing with her acting talent rather than the rather vulnerable woman at the start of her career.<\/p>\n "The change in Helen\u2019s body language poses has been enormous since she gave birth.<\/p>\n "Previously her stunning and pale blue eyes tended to be hidden, along with her authentic identity, suggesting a lack of inner confidence. <\/p>\n "She often tried to look as unlike her authentic self as possible once, as she switched around with different looks. <\/p>\n "Now she is totally and undeniably Helen, meeting the camera with her eyes in a signal of feelings of enhanced control, making her look relatable and more relaxed about \u2018baring\u2019 her personality along with her body.<\/p>\n "She looks proud to be a mum but also proud of the way that she looks, too. <\/p>\n "Her body language mood looks genuinely relaxed and playful, suggesting she\u2019s taking the lead making her own decisions about her poses now rather than being choreographed, as she seemed to have been in the older photos." <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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