She has spoken candidly about overcoming alcohol addiction in favour of a healthy lifestyle.
And Davinia Taylor displayed her washboard abs in several throwback workout snaps on Sunday as she declared that women don’t have to ‘settle for feeling less than’.
The former soap star, 43, also discussed the importance of exercise and using weights to target large muscle groups while capturing her athletic physique.
Ripped: Davinia Taylor displayed her washboard abs in several throwback workout snaps on Sunday as she declared that women don’t have to ‘settle for feeling less than’
In one Instagram photo, Davinia curled her bicep as she sported black shorts and a sports bra.
She captioned the upload taken at the the Chedi Muscat hotel in Oman: ‘Never been leaner – I was 40 this trip’.
In a similar mirror selfie, the mother-of-four rocked minimal make-up and tucked her blonde tresses back in a high ponytail as she wrote: ‘I got into daily weights’.
She proceeded to capture a photo on a leg extension machine before reminiscing over times when she could exercise in the sunshine and abroad.
Dedicated: The 43-year-old also discussed the importance of exercise and using weights to target large muscle groups while capturing her athletic physique
Davinia wrote: ‘For anyone hitting a milestone birthday this year or in fact feels we as women have to look matronly during our route to middle age i have to say we do not have to settle for feeling less than or settle into a statistic if you don’t want to.
‘I’ve never felt stronger (mentally too) then when doing weights and burning bigger muscle groups (legs and bum) in order to get my abs back I’ll do more legs!!!
‘I’ll do some sit ups but the bigger the muscle group the more energy burned !! I think that’s why my weight hasn’t shot up is because I’m hill running and activating my glutes more these days.’
She continued by promoting fellow health and wellbeing enthusiasts before suggesting weighted exercise could help improve health conditions.
‘Legs legs legs’! Davinia sported black shorts and a sports bra and decided to wear minimal make-up while tucking her blonde tresses up in a high ponytail
‘Can’t wait to exercise in the sun’: She reminisced over times when she could exercise abroad and in the sunshine while promoting fellow health and wellbeing enthusiasts
Davinia added: ‘Following @roarfitnessgirlwill give you some ideas on building some decent muscle and @megmathewsofficial_swears weights have helped reverse her osteoporosis!!!!!!
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‘You won’t bulk up like Madonna did that takes hours of training in a day to build like that …you will only get leaner and reduce loads of risk factors. I did a few kettle bell rounds with @mikesgymmarbella last time I was there which was incredible for all over fat loss in minimal time.
‘Should be in a post in my grid ..These pictures were taken when we went @thechedimuscat abs it’s had the nicest gym ever btw !!!’ (sic)
Davinia was famed for her position in the notorious Primrose Hill party set, where she joined her then-husband Dave Gardner in partying through the Nineties with pals including Kate Moss, Sadie Frost and Jude Law.
The great outdoors: Davinia also uploaded a throwback snap completing lunges on the grass
She shares son Grey, 13, with Dave, and Luxx, nine, whose father has never been revealed, and Asa, six, and four-year-old Jude with her partner Matthew Leyden.
In January, Davinia spoke about being near death, finding sobriety and weight gain in a candid interview with the Hot Mess Mums Podcast.
She said: ‘I’m definitely not a doctor or anything but I have been extremely unhealthy, near death unhealthy, through fault of my own and genetics and environment or whatever.
‘But I am always up for trying something, even if a doctor says don’t try it, I’m sitting there staring at an overweight doctor who smokes 20 a day and drinks a bottle of wine, or dare I say a box of wine every evening, and I’m like, “yeah I think I will do my own experiment”.
Empowered: The former Hollyoaks actress posted a lengthy caption as she highlighted the benefits of training
‘To see what works best for me to be able to think better, move better, feel better, so I don’t have to turn to old behaviours, whether it be sugar or booze or whatever, I just want to live without any cravings really, because they are horrible’
On becoming sober, she said: ‘I think that a lot of people have to go down the AA route, and I went in with AA but they promote you having sugar to swap your alcohol cravings which didn’t really work for me.
‘Having said that AA is a lovely place and a very spiritual place, and you can get a lot of serotonin from the group chats, and that’s the basis of how it works. But I’m not 100% behind the AA movement as you can get some really difficult people in there, so for me it was just working my brain to stop getting cravings.
‘In AA you hear people who have been abused and had all these awful childhoods and I sat there thinking, why am I here? I’ve had an amazing childhood, hilarious upbringing, great education, like what the hell is my problem?’
She continued: ‘That’s when I got into genetics to figure out what it is that makes me, be able to consume so much alcohol and be able to detoxify from it, so I don’t puke up and yet still want more, and that’s all in my genetic code.’
Her loves: Davinia is mother to son Grey, 13, from her seven-year marriage to Dave Gardner, (not pictured) Luxx, ten, whose father she has never revealed. And Asa, seven, and five-year-old Jude, with her current partner Matthew Leyden
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