Melissa Suffield has admitted that she "never watched EastEnders" and doesn't speak to her old co-stars. Known as "the confident mama" on Instagram, sitting down for an exclusive chat with Daily Star, the mum-of-one has lifted the lid on what it's like to post body confident photographs online.Chatting with us about her stint in BBC One soap opera EastEnders, Melissa admitted that she hasn't watched EastEnders since leaving the soap in 2010 – nor did she watch it before she starred in it.READ NEXT: EastEnders' Melissa Suffield gets flurry of 'horrible' d**k pics over body positive pics"I never did.
I didn't watch EastEnders," she told us during our tell-all chat."I didn't before I joined. I didn't really watch when I was in and I didn't since."She added: "So I never actually did [watch the soap], so there was nothing where I had to go, 'do I keep watching or I'll stop watching'. "That was never a thing for me, because I was a very busy child, and I was actually never home when it was on."So it wasn't something that I grew up with at all.
It wasn't something that's on in the house because we have always been a busy family, from ballet to guitar to piano to swimming to brownies all in one night sometimes."She went on to explain how, growing up, her family wasn't "TV heavy" meaning "it just never really pops up on [her] radar" today.Melissa did watch some episodes while starring in the soap though."When I was in it I watched a few episodes because I was like 'ooh, I remember filming this, I want to see how it went down' - that's probably when I watched it the most, while I was in it.
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