I DO wonder whether celebrity mums do ordinary mortals a terrible disservice.

Actress Anna Friel has been crowned the nation's yummiest mummy in a poll of more than 1,000 men.

The Rochdale lass shed her baby weight after giving birth to daughter Gracie in just three months so she could shoot sex scenes for a film. She is undoubtedly beautiful, with a killer figure, but probably had a mass of resources available to her to trim down plus plenty of help.

Most new mums not only don't have personal trainers or help in the house but probably struggle to juggle looking after a baby with household commitments while feeling like Orca the Whale.

If only just one famous actress or model who had just had a baby looked like the whole thing wasn't as easy as shelling peas. And admitted that, yes, stretch marks and excess weight were a pig to shift, the rest of the female population would probably feel so much better.