Rebecca Adlington: "I will always be insecure"

Recently retired swimmer Rebecca Adlington has confessed that she will always feel "insecure" over her physical appearance.

The former Olympic champion, who recently appeared on 'I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here', has been abused on Twitter about her looks, while comedian Frankie Boyle once said that she "looks pretty weird".

The 24-year-old told Time Magazine: "When I look in the mirror, it's not the person who I want to be. Every day I look in the mirror and go, 'God, I'm not pretty'.

"I've got a very big nose. That's what most of the negative comments on Twitter are about, my nose. People say, 'Oh God you look like a dolphin,' or 'I didn't realise they let whales into the Olympics, but at least you should be able to swim faster with a nose like that'.

"I will always be insecure and I will always look in the mirror and wish I was a pretty girl. I've always known I'm not particularly attractive. I don't have high cheekbones and I've got big fishy lips. I don't have a womanly figure, people say I'm butch , manly."

Adlington won gold medals in the 400m and 800m freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, before taking bronzes in the same events in London last year.