A Place In The Sun's Amanda Lamb, 53, shows off her figure in a bikini as she goes makeup free during sun soaked holiday
The TV presenter, 53, looked incredible in a brown bikini and went makeup free for a day by the pool.
Sharing an update to Instagram, she gave an insight into her first three days and revealed she had travelled solo with four children in tow.
Amanda shares two daughters with her husband Sean McGuinness; Willow, 16, and Lottie, 12, who each brought a friend along for the trip.
She captioned the post: 'Flying solo on holiday. 1 parent 4 kids (2 I've birthed 2 I've acquired) … how many of you holiday on your own with your children? How do you find it?
'The first time I tried it I was terrified… thought I'd be judged, thought I wouldn't be able to entertain them and make them happy and I'd taken away their idea of the perfect family holiday.'
Amanda continued: 'This is my fourth trip and now I can proudly say I'm nailing it…I've stopped trying to create the 'Boden catalogue perfect vacation' now I go with the flow.
'This year I've bankrupted myself and let them both bring a friend.. total game changer… we're now day 3 in and after the initial first day of not knowing what's hit us we've all found our rhythm.
'Uno a** whooping, buffet carnage, Aqua aerobics and star gazing on the beach. The kids are happy and therefore I am too..
'If you're embarking on a solo parent trip for the first time.. have faith. It is weird, it isn't perfect but perfect is dull.. deep breaths, and allow yourself and the ones you love to just be for a while.'
Amanda had modelled in the 90s but it was after becoming the main presenter of A Place In The Sun in 2001.
The presenter left the show in 2009 around the time she was pregnant with her daughter Willow Rose.
Speaking previously to the Daily Express, she said: 'It was all, sort of, quite organic because I was pregnant with Willow, and A Place in the Sun didn't get recommissioned, so they didn't want it for a couple of years.
'And by the time it came back, Willow was three and a half, and she was in nursery, and I had a load of other commitments.'
She added: 'I just thought, I'm not taking her out of nursery, I'm not taking her out of school, I'm not leaving her for three weeks at a time. So the decision was kind of made for me.'
The snaps came after Amanda revealed she enforces a 10pm 'tech' curfew for her family, forcing them to submit their mobile phones to her bedroom until the next day.
She confessed she put the disciplinary measure in place so her husband Sean and two children Willow and Lottie, wouldn't be consumed by excessive screen time.
During a conversation with Closer magazine, the star from Hampshire revealed details of the strict regime, which she said she implements five days a week - from Sundays to Thursdays.
'I'm a stickler for no screens at night,' she said. 'Everyone has to bring their devices up to my room at 10pm, and then they're all allowed them again in the morning.'
She added: 'It's a constant battle, but the curfew is there to make sure they're not up all night and taking in too much blue light'.
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