Ashley James got 'catcalled' when she was pregnant

Ashley James got “catcalled” when she was pregnant.

The former ‘Made in Chelsea’ star, 35, detailed how she endured street harassment while expecting her son Alfie, 18 months, and explained that she thought she would “get a break” from unwanted comments while pregnant while on .

Speaking on Heart's 'Dirty Mother Pukka' podcast, she told hosts Anna Whitehouse and Polly Hazelwood: “I was still catcalled even pregnant. I thought, not that anyone should be catcalled, but I thought at least being severely pregnant, you’d get a break. Nope, nope. And what I realised is that it didn’t matter if I was breastfeeding because these are the same comments that started when I was 13 years old. They just hate women and hate women who have bodies.”

The former 'Celebrity Big Brother' contestant - who welcomed her son Alfie with husband Tom Andrews back in January 2021 - went on to explain that after the birth, negative "old feelings" she had been harbouring started to resurface.

She said: “I noticed it a lot during my postnatal days because I was breastfeeding, and actually that stirred up a lot of old feelings for me because my boobs grew five sizes and I’ve always had big boobs. Since the age of 13, I was a 30GG. I’ve always had boobs.

Ashley added: “They just hate women and hate women who have bodies. And if you've got big boobs as all this, you know you're s***** or sexual or promiscuous.”

She also said: “Why was my body bad? So then I started to wear really quite frumpy clothing and my mum even being like, ‘Actually, I wouldn't even wear this but it taught me my body was bad and my body was shameful and if I wanted to be taken seriously and if I wanted to be seen as intelligent, I had to almost reject femininity and reject my body and it also made me quite misogynistic and I had so much internalised misogyny because I saw makeup and beauty and anything a bit feminine and frivolous.”