Denise Van Outen has spoken about her recent wedding with Any Dream Will Do winner, Lee Mead.

The pair got married on a beach in the Seychelles in April. They kept it completely private with only 17 friends and close family members.

“Everyone thought I’d want a big thing, but I know when things are meant to be kept private,” she told Grazia magazine.

She continued: “I want an album of wedding photos to show my kids, not a magazine.

“I had so many texts from people saying well done for not selling out. There were just 17 of us and it was really relaxed, really lovely.”

“After our honeymoon in the Maldives, I put on about half a stone,” she added.

“I’d gone very soft round the waist. But that’s what your wedding and your honeymoon are about – I let myself go, ate everything in sight and drank cocktails at sunset. But that’s what it should be. You can’t have a wedding and not eat the cake.”

The couple aren’t planning for the patter of little feet just yet, Denise says: “It’s just too much pressure, we want to enjoy married life.”

The full interview appears in Grazia magazine, on sale today (Tuesday).