Irish influencer Kiki Nugent has confirmed her romance with Matthew Beattie, the brother of season three Love Island star Alex Beattie.
The personal trainer, who is known by her social media handle Kiki Fit, took to her Instagram Stories to share a loved-up snap with her new beau.
The couple are currently on holidays at the luxury ski resort Val-d’Isère in the French Alps with pals, including Alex – who was coupled up with Montana Brown on the dating show.
Kiki’s new romance comes after her split from her fiancé Craig O’Sullivan.
The fitness model announced her engagement in June last year – after moving to Dubai with Craig in January.
But in November, the 25-year-old confirmed she and Craig were no longer together, and she returned home to Ireland.
Speaking about their breakup on the Sinead Says podcast, Kiki said: “I never had a breakup – this was my first ever relationship, my first ever boyfriend, and it was all so public. So for me, the main thing was just looking after my mental health from the start.”
“What happened with me is I moved back into my parent’s house, and I lay in bed for about six weeks. I’m not going to sugarcoat it – I lay in my bed, I slept with my mom and I ate pizza. It was pretty awful. It was a really really bad time in my life.”
“When I was coming back to Ireland, I was distraught, I was so upset… I was sitting in Amsterdam airport crying and thinking ‘I just need to pull myself together.’”
Kiki revealed she then got herself a therapist to help her deal with her breakup.
She said: “I was in a relationship for years – that’s all I knew. So it was such a shellshock to me when I was like, ‘Oh my god, I’m back at home living with my parents.’”
“I doubted my entire existence [after the breakup]. I literally couldn’t post on Instagram, I couldn’t do my job, I couldn’t do anything because I was like ‘I am a piece of s***.’ I felt so awful… I’d never felt so low in myself.”
Kiki continued: “I was 100% co-dependent, it was my first relationship. I didn’t know how to love myself, they don’t teach you this in school – how to be really really happy with yourself.”
“It takes you a while to breakup with the person because of that terrifying feeling of being by yourself and not being loved, and having this validation with your partner.”
“The point where I was like ‘Ok I’m going to leave’, I had to break my own heart, because I knew what I deserved and I knew where I wanted my life to go, so I had to be like no and put the blinkers on and leave it. It is really hard, but once you break that attachment to the person it’s not that bad.”
Speaking about having a relationship in the public eye, Kiki said: “It was tough, it was heart wrenchingly hard being on Instagram and people wanting answers… It was honestly one of the hardest parts of my life.”
