Binky Felstead was encouraged to find a new partner by a stranger on Instagram.
The ‘Made in Chelsea’ star – who has three-year-old daughter India with ex Joshua ‘JP’ Patterson – has revealed she went on a search for love again after she was given the advice by one of her Instagram followers, who is also a single parent.
The 30-year-old reality star took on what she said and has been dating businessman Max Fredrik Darnton since last January.
Speaking to the September issue of Women’s Health magazine – of which she is the cover star – Binky shared: "This girl [on Instagram] said: ‘I think it’s absolutely incredible what you’re doing, bringing up your little girl, and I just want to let you know that I’ve been a single mum for two years now and I’ve turned away any opportunity to meet anyone because of my daughter. And all I can say now is that she’s growing up, she doesn’t need me as much any more and I’m still single and quite lonely. So, please make sure you’re not giving up the chance to meet someone or bring yourself happiness.’"
Binky admitted she hopes to extend her brood and wants her children to grow up in the countryside like she did.
Asked if she’ll be having more kids, she said: "Hopefully, there are more babies in the future and, you know, [I’m] looking at places in the country to have weekends, that’s the type of thing I want in my future – my childhood, basically. I had the most amazing childhood – ducks, chickens running around in the kitchen, goats in the garden."
Meanwhile, the brunette beauty also revealed that she "100 per cent" believes in psychic mediums.
She said: "I know people pooh-pooh it and I guess that’s because people probably will have had rubbish experiences before, but I’ve had so many brilliant ones and I believe in it 100%."
Binky split from JP in September 2018, 15 months after their little girl was born, and previously admitted she wasn’t expecting to find a new partner "so soon" after the breakup, but she feels "incredibly lucky" to have found Max.
She said: "I just didn’t know it would be so soon, and I didn’t know that this would be how I feel.
"I’m incredibly lucky to have met him.
Read the full interview in the September 2020 issue of Women’s Health UK, on sale from the 5th of August, 2020, also available as a digital edition.