Christine McGuinness showed off her incredible flexibility as she shared a yoga video with her 710,000 Instagram followers on Thursday.
The TV personality, 35, looked sensational in a sports bra and leggings as she performed a series of Ashtanga yoga poses.
The video, captioned ‘Working on HER’, saw the model demonstrate backbends and shoulder stands with ease.
She went on to tell her followers that she’d been doing more yoga recently in order to protect her mental health.
Research suggests autistic people are more prone to experiencing anxiety and estimates that up to half of all autistic people experience high levels of anxiety on a regular basis.
Namaste: Christine McGuinness showed off her incredible flexibility as she shared a yoga video with her 710,000 Instagram followers on Thursday
Asked by a follower if yoga helped her autism anxiety, Christine revealed: ‘yes, I’ve been terrible recently really bad with it, yoga definitely helps.’
As another fan told her she should take up teaching, Christine, responded: ‘❤️ Thank you, I find yoga helps my mind so much.’
Christine was diagnosed with autism in 2021 and recently explored the late diagnosis of the developmental disability in women in her BBC documentary, Unmasking My Autism.
The blonde beauty split from husband of 11 years Paddy in 2022, with the pair still living in their home to keep things as ‘normal as possible’ for their three children, who also have autism and are unaware of the break-up.
Sharing details during an interview with Heart, Christine explained: ‘It’s a positive thing that I’m autistic and my three children are because we understand each other so much more.
‘It’s a blessing and I love it. I know when to give them a time out and I know they’re not being difficult.’
After an assessment, which she described as a ‘long process’, she was diagnosed when she was 31 – a result that was an ‘instant relief’.
She previously explained that she would be forever grateful to her children for teaching her about a condition she previously knew nothing about, saying this has helped her come to understand herself.
Stunning: The TV personality, 35, looked sensational in a sports bra and leggings as she performed a series of Ashtanga yoga poses
Look at her go: The video, captioned ‘Working on HER’, saw the model demonstrate backbends and shoulder stands with ease
Helpful: Asked by a follower if yoga helped her autism anxiety, Christine revealed: ‘yes, I’ve been terrible recently really bad with it, yoga definitely helps’
The mother-of-three said: ‘So I got diagnosed at 31 and it was just instant relief, like the penny dropped.
‘And it was quite an emotional day. Suddenly, my whole life had made sense. It’s been a completely different life since, it’s been so much better.’
She added that she would be forever grateful to her children for teaching her about a condition she previously knew nothing about, saying this has helped her come to understand herself.
She said: ‘I’m so, so grateful that I didn’t go through with what I was feeling as a teenager and that I have found a purpose, not just in being a mother, but being a mother to three autistic children, who I’m extremely proud of.
‘And I am so happy they are the way they are because they’ve been the best teachers to me.
‘They’ve taught me more than anyone ever could have in my whole entire life, because they’ve taught me about a condition that I knew nothing about, which therefore, has helped me understand myself.’
Struggles: Research suggests autistic people are more prone to experiencing anxiety and estimates that up to half of all autistic people experience high levels of anxiety regularly