When Kelly Brook revealed her husband's ruthless nickname for her after she gained weight, her fans told her to ditch him. The Celebrity Race Across the World stars have been married since 2022. However, in 2019, Kelly, 44, admitted the Italian, 39, had called her a "balloon" after she used the term to describe herself.
Admitting the couple had been tucking into pies and pints of Guinness at their local pub, which had 'piled on the pounds', she told Heart radio : “What happened was – I had been living in the countryside for the past few years with Jeremy, my boyfriend, and you know we just got in to English life, going to the pub, having a pint of Guinness and nice pies. “Over time, I was putting on the pounds and not really noticing, I was just wearing baggier clothes until one day I came in, bear in mind my boyfriend’s French so his English is a little limited. And I said ‘Oh Jeremy I feel like a balloon’ and he went ‘Oh come here you little balloon’.
And so he got the word from me, I don’t even think he knew what a balloon was.” After revealing the brutal nickname, Jeremy faced a heap of backlash from Kelly's fans. However, the model insisted her husband got the word 'balloon' from her while revealing she had also been trolled online because of her weight.
Speaking to Fabulous Online after dropping to a size 12 and shedding 1st 1lb after starting a SlimFast diet in October five years ago, she said: “My boyfriend said I looked like a little balloon, it.