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Stylish Alex Curran wins in the Aintree fashion stakes... beating the dodgy opposition by a distance
Last updated at 09:44am on 04.04.08WAG Alex Curran was clearly the filly to beat as she turned up to the Aintree Grand National meeting at her glamorous best.
The wife of Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard, shrugged off her jelly belly embarrassment of the previous day, to lead the field in the fashion stake in a flamenco-style red-frilled off-the-shoulder blouse and black pencil skirt. The competition, such as it was, was left trailing.
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Putting on the style: Alex Curran put on the style to attend the races at Liverpool's Aintree racecourse today - but kept her wobbly belly out of the picture
Fashionistas: Alex and her pals pitched up at the races in a flurry of ruffles, fake fur and designer shoes
And just to make sure there was no repeat of of an embarrassing tummy-baring incident earlier this week, when she exposed her wobbly midriff in a velour tracksuit - the 25-year-old cinched in her figure-hugging outfit with an extremely wide black patent belt.
Teamed with her trademark ultra-high platform shoes, and a chic sideswept chignon, the mother-of-two looked chic and fashionable.
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Alex Curran's tummy wobbled as she raced to her car after a hair appointment on Wednesday
The same could not be said for most of her fellow race-goers.
Officially, Ladies' Day at Aintree isn't until today but that did nothing to deter the "glamour" girls of Merseyside who descended on the Grand National race meeting in garishly clad droves.
Glazed with acres of fake tan and struggling alternately with unruly hair-pieces, bleached-blonde tresses and heaving bosoms, they put on a fashion display that many spectators will never forget - no matter how hard they try.
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Pretty in pink, orange and monochrome: The fashionable girls of Liverpool love to dress for the occasion, and recently had their own fashion week
Fashionable fillies?: Liverpol's finest sported oversize frills, an outfit apparently left over from Braveheart and hippie 'chic' teamed with a cleavage-boosting cardigan
Among the extraordinary outfits was a pink gingham check dress paired with pink phone and plastic flower, a tartan corset dress "matched" with brilliant jade shoes and an astonishing floral confection complimented by saggy armpits, plastic rainscarf and a scowl.
Uber-WAG Alex, however, seemed to spend most of her day away from the ill-dressed masses and instead teamed up with some similarly stylish friends for lunch.
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All dolled up: Hats, form-fitting frocks and a glass of wine were the order of the day at Aintree
Crime of fashion: Girly pink gingham - teamed with heaving bosoms and two eye-grabbing pieces dashed with garish colour
As the four happily posed for photographs, the only way to tell them apart was her brilliant red tomato top.
Earlier in the week, the fashion-obsessed Mrs Gerrard looked less stylish after dressing down in a taupe velour tracksuit and inadvertently putting her wobbly tummy on show.
Meanwhile, her husband recently revealed he is hoping to persuade his young wife to have another child.
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Frock horror: Yellow peril with plastic rain hat and a mini-dressed would be Bride of Dracula
The pair already have two daughters, Lilly-Ella, four, and Lexie, 22 months.
The football star said: "It would be nice if we could make it one more in the future."
"Not just yet, but eventually. Children are very hard work and I'm happy with my family at the moment."
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Reader views (13)
Julie / Nicole, spoken like a porker...
- Eb, london
I think this is a really rude article, it is picking on people!
- Tv, London
Thank goodness Alex and her chums looked so fabulous at the races. We can rest easy that the world is still turning.
- Flo, Bath
Oh dear, I despair when I read those comments. Even gently poking fun at a WAG is "verboten" nowadays. And most British girls' problem is not an eating disorder in the sense of being anorexic but being grossly overweight. Except you're not allowed to mention this.
- Delphine, Oxford
Do you not realise that young girls will question their own bodies when you imply that Alex Curran has a “jelly belly”, and this can lead to eating disorders. There is absolutely nothing wrong with her – she has the figure of a normal healthy woman, not a size zero stick insect. This kind of irresponsible reporting has got to stop.
- Julie, Aylesbury, Bucks
Who gives a monkey about some talentless wannabe who is only in the public eye because of their husband...why do we give newspapers inches to these women?
- Martin Van, London
And you wonder why so many young people have eating disorders you really should be ashamed to have submitted this article. what I would love to see is a photo on here of everyone of your bellies and I bet not one look as good as her's.
- Nicole, Scotland
Will this sort of sexist article never stop? Having babies gives you some extra body fat, wow stop the press. Let's ask all the journalists to show their bellies for the cameras shall we?
- Kath, London
And? So what, proves she is human and a Mum, albeit super-rich! Hardly fat though, is she?
- Sandra, London
How irresponsible! There is nothing there of her belly, I wish mine was like that. What are young, insecure girls going to think if they think this is a "jelly belly"! Alex looks great!
- Julie, Essex
For heaven's sake, give the woman a break! There's more fat on a seagull's shin than her abs. If my tummy looks like this after another baby, I'll be skipping round in a bikini 24/7.
And there's more than a whiff of double standards about this story - I'm pretty sure your paper covered the furore over skinny models on the catwalk at London Fashion Week. If skinny models are meant to encourage anorexia among teenage girls, then how can you justify printing a feature that criticises and ridicules a slim, healthy looking woman just because she doesn't have a fat-free, washboard stomach?
Features like this don't help anyone - surely the focus should be on being fit and healthy whether you're a size 8 or 16, rather than bullying people for not having a pancake-flat tummy...
- A Bit Miffed, Deal, England
Golly you guys are cruel! She's absolutely fine.
- Speckti, london
Hardly wobbly! how ridiculous.
- Anne-Marie, London, UK
