Ulrika Jonsson has marked her 54th birthday with a playful series of selfies that appear to have been taken from the comfort of her bed.
Ringing in her special day on Instagram on Monday, the TV star looked radiant while pulling faces for her social media followers and declaring: ‘This is 54.’
Posting a lengthy caption alongside the intimate snaps, Ulrika branded herself ‘a complicated soul’ and ‘a lioness of boundless proportions’.
Birthday: Ulrika Jonsson has marked her 54th birthday with a playful series of selfies that appear to be taken from the comfort of her bed
Special day: Ringing in her special day on Instagram on Monday, the TV star looked fresh-faced while pulling faces for her social media followers and declaring: ‘This is 54’
Ulrika wrote in full: ‘This is 54. Happy Birthday, to me. What I know so far: I’m a lioness of boundless proportions. I am fierce; I am loyal. Passion courses through my veins; fire scorches my heart and imagination canters like a wild horse through my buoyant, tangled mind.
‘I love with reckless abandon and ardour at times when caution and circumspection might be the order of the day. Lying down with lions has never perturbed me. But the futility of attempting to change the shape of my heart has never been lost on me. I am who I am.’
She added: ‘I may be too much. But I am never not enough. I’m instinctive and intuitive. An empath; a lover, a carer and nurturer. I am learning to put myself first but it turns out to be a vigorous lesson to learn. I am a woman of substance. I am a complicated soul.’
Ulrika concluded: ‘I can be apprehensive and impatient. And I don’t like goat’s cheese.’
‘Complicated soul’: Posting a lengthy caption alongside the intimate snaps, Ulrika branded herself ‘a complicated soul’ and ‘a lioness of boundless proportions’
Ulrika’s birthday post comes four days after she returned from Corfu, where she had been visiting her eldest daughter, Bo.
While there, the doting mother shared plenty of sunny snaps with her followers, including a sizzling series of bathroom selfies in which she donned a bright yellow bikini.
Ulrika added: ‘I love with reckless abandon and ardour at times when caution and circumspection might be the order of the day’
Ulrika set off for her mother-daughter holiday shortly after revealing her youngest son Malcolm, 13, finally had settled status in the UK and can remain for an ‘indefinite period’.
Malcolm recently returned from America where his advertising executive father Brian Monet is from.
Ulrika said the thought of him being ‘adopted abroad’ would have been ‘messy’ so she is grateful to have him back home.
The media personality took to Instagram earlier in August to share a snap of Malcolm posing with a lightsaber.
Alongside the post, she wrote: ‘Tonight I had a 27min instruction on lightsabers from the youngest Ungrateful.
Ulrika concluded: ‘I can be apprehensive and impatient. And I don’t like goat’s cheese’
‘He has just returned from the States where he custom made one. Himself.
‘This is important because today I was told by the @ukhomeoffice that this half-yank, half-Viking boy has been given leave to stay in this country for an indefinite period. He finally has Settled Status.
‘Which is a huge relief because the thought of having him adopted abroad was gonna be messy.
Age-defying: Ulrika’s birthday post comes four days after she returned from Corfu, where she had been visiting her eldest daughter, Bo, and the star shared snaps of her holiday
Relieved: Ulrika revealed her youngest son Malcolm (pictured), 13, has finally settled status in the UK and can remain for an ‘indefinite period’
‘So thank you, UK for letting me keep him by my side. And if anyone is interested in lightsabers, you know where to find the bugger.’
Ulrika was married to ex-husband Brian for eleven years before the couple parted ways in 2019.
She is also mother to son Cameron, 26, with John Turnbull, daughter Bo with ex Markus Kempen and daughter Martha, 17, with Lance Gerrard-Wright.
Ex: Malcolm recently returned from America where his advertising executive father Brian Monet is from. Ulrika pictured with Brian in 2013
Happy family: Ulrika is pictured with her children Cameron (back), 26, Bo (far right), Martha, 17, (far left) and Malcolm (front)