Schapelle Corby celebrates her 43rd birthday on the Gold Coast with her family

It’s been three years since she she finished her parole and returned to Australia, after being behind bars for nine years in an Indonesian jail.

On Friday, Schapelle Corby showed she has been enjoying spending time with her family, as she celebrated her 43rd birthday at home. 

Wearing a plastic princess tiara and sipping on Moët champagne, Schapelle looked overjoyed to be spending the occasion with her loved ones.  

Schapelle lifted her champagne glass as she posed in front of a handmade cake in the Instagram post, before sharing several photos of herself surrounded by family. 

‘Happy Birthday to me 43! 2020,’ Schapelle wrote, adding a smiling face and blue heart emoji. 

Back in April, Schapelle seemed to handle Australia’s coronavirus lockdown better than many others.

In a post on Instagram at the time, the convicted drug smuggler shared a photo of herself living her best life in her backyard swimming pool.

‘What a difference a pool makes in isolation,’ she captioned the photo, a clear reference to her infamous stint in an Indonesian prison.  

Dressed in a strapless black bikini, a smiling Schapelle flaunted her cleavage, while grinning happily at the camera as she stood in her pool.

Her long dark hair was piled up in a topknot, and a bottle of Malibu rum was seen sitting on the edge of the pool beside her. 

It’s not the first time Schapelle has poked fun at her sordid past, after she was convicted of smuggling cannabis into Bali back in May 2005.

In January last year, during Instagram’s viral ’10 year challenge’, in which social media users were sharing photos of themselves now juxtaposed against themselves 10 years ago, Schapelle posted a photo of herself behind bars.

‘Been a rough-trot. Better now,’ she captioned the photo.