New mum Jennie McAlpine - 'I just have to accept I’ll never bounce on a trampoline again'

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As mothers all over the world know, childbirth can result in a handful of physical mishaps down there, and someone who's very aware of that is Coronation Street actress Jennie McAlpine, who welcomed her third child, a daughter called Doris, five months ago.

The 39 year old soap star - who already shares son Albert, eight, and daughter Hilda, four, with husband Chris Farr - this week exclusively opened up to OK!

about some of the more embarrassing consequences of labour. Speaking of her not-so-speedy recovery, after welcoming Doris at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Hospital in April, Jennie admitted: "I’m OK, but I do feel a difference in my body from the first, which is hardly surprising as it was almost nine years ago. "I’m not going to lie, the pelvic floor is most definitely not what it was.

But I’ve got three healthy children, which I feel really lucky about, so I’ll just have to grin and bear the fact I’ll never be able to get on a trampoline again." Jennie - who plays Fiz Dobbs on the Manchester soap - went into labour a few days before her due date and confides that the birth took longer than she was anticipating. "Without going into all the gory details, we were there for a while," she said. "There were a few shift changes of midwives in that time, put it that way. "As with all my births I tried to stay as calm as possible and remember my breathing.