(Daily Mail)—Alexis Bellino recently spoke of her battle with eating disorders and her past issues with her body image. But the 34-year-old star of Real Housewives of Orange County appeared in fighting form for a new photo shoot where she showed off her flawless bikini body.
Alexis’s toned figure was shown off to perfection in the tiny gold bikini, which glistened in the sunlight as she enjoyed her time at the beach.
The stunning two-piece, which was made of sparkly material, was accented with gold rings on the bottoms and she wore a matching gold cuff to bring her ensemble together.
Alexis also struck a pose on a beach chair and put a girlie white flower in her hair as she smiled for the camera showing off her surgically enhanced assets that she has made no secret of having.
The mother-of-three showed that despite her strict moral values as a conservative Christian, she was still happy to show off her shapely physique.
The aspiring fashion designer married husband Jim Bellino in 2005 and the couple are said to have a rocky relationship but refuse to ever split up.
On Monday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County that featured ‘lost footage’ of the past season, Alexis opened up about her divorce fears.
She spoke to her therapist about her deep-rooted fears about her marriage ending and says it is because both she and her husband are from divorced families.
The couple had made a pact when they married that ‘divorce is not an option’ for them.
She said the reason ‘divorce rings so hard in my head’ is because of her own experience when her parents split.
‘I probably freak out about divorce because of the fact that my parents got divorced… that’s why Jim and I work so hard to keep our family unit number one.
‘Because you think, “oh the grass is greener on the other side… if I get out of this marriage, my kids will be better.”‘
‘But if the grass is greener, you need to water your own lawn, not buy another house,’ she added.
Alexis has recently opened up for the first time about her life-long battle with food and has admitted that she has struggled with eating disorders since she was 12-years-old.
She told Life&Style magazine that she only eats 900 calories a day, which is well below the recommended 2000 for women.
She says her problems first arose back in 1988 when her parents divorced. She recalled: ‘I just didn’t want to eat,’ saying she believes it was in a bid to exert some form of control as her world fell apart.
By the time she was at college, she began making herself sick after meals, remembering how she felt ‘so heavy’ at the time.
After the collapse of her first marriage in 2004 to Jeffrey Barry she finally decided to seek help and managed to stop purging.
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