‘I look hideous’: Former Miss Universe Australia Erin McNaught says she wouldn’t have signed on to SAS Australia earlier in her career because of ‘pure vanity’
She’s the jaw-dropping model who is currently making waves on this year’s new series, SAS Australia.
But on Friday, Erin McNaught made the revelation that she wouldn’t have taken part in the gruelling challenge show during the height of her modelling career – out of ‘pure vanity’.
The now 38-year-old told The Courier Mail: ‘From day one, I look hideous.
How times have changed! On Friday, Erin McNaught hinted she wouldn’t have taken part in SAS Australia during the height of her modelling career – out of ‘pure vanity’. Pictured left in July 2019 and right during filming earlier this year
‘If I had done the show 10 years ago I would have struggled with that aspect just out of pure vanity.’
However, she adds: ‘But at the age I’m at now, I didn’t care.’
Erin is still recovering from injuries she sustained while filming the challenge show two months ago, saying the brutal military-style reality show ‘almost broke her’ physically and mentally.
The now 38-year-old told The Courier Mail : ‘From day one, I look hideous. If I had done the show 10 years ago I would have struggled with that aspect just out of pure vanity.’ Erin represented Australia in the Miss Universe pageant in 2006 (pictured)
However, she adds: ‘But at the age I’m at now, I didn’t care’. Pictured on the show
Speaking to Who magazine, she said: ‘I passed out underwater, I got black eyes, tore muscles in my left shoulder and I lost something like 7kg.’
‘I felt like I almost died on day one! The physical side was tough but the mental side was hard, too,’ she added.
On day one, all celebrity recruits were required to fall out of a helicopter backwards into icy waters and swim to the shore unassisted.
Erin, who has already shared photos of her badly bruised body from the fall, went on to describe the extent of her injuries from the stunt.
‘I got black eyes, tore muscles in my left shoulder and I lost something like 7kg’: Erin has already shared photos of her badly bruised body from a helicopter fall on the show
‘I blacked out underwater, lost sight in my left eye’: Model Erin’s entrance into the water didn’t go to plan and was badly hurt by the fall
‘I felt like I almost died on day one’: Erin said she struggled physically and mentally on the tough reality TV series. Pictured with swollen cheeks after the brutal helicopter fall
‘I landed face first horizontally. I blacked out underwater, lost sight in my left eye for a while and had two black eyes for five days,’ she said.
The mother-of-two added that despite her best efforts to ‘bulk up’ before the show with an additional 6kg, she lost more than 6kg during her time on SAS: Australia.
While they were required to perform very physical tasks, Erin explained they were living off ‘meagre rations’.
SAS: Australia airs Monday and Tuesday nights from 7:30pm on Channel Seven
Happy family: Erin shares two young sons, Evander, four, and Ennio, three, with UK singer Example, real name Elliot Gleave (left)