Jodie Kidd Embraces Countryside Life After Panic Attacks

has shared an insight into her new wholesome life in the country with fiance Joseph Bates and son Indio, 14, in a new interview on Friday. 

The supermodel shot to fame in her teens but stepped away from full-time modelling in the early 2000s after revealing she suffered 'huge' panic attacks on the runway.

Jodie now lives a low-key outdoorsy life in West Sussex with her family and looks after her own chickens, grows her own vegetables and is the proud landlady of The Half Moon Kirdford pub.

Recalling her 'anxiety' battle, Jodie told OK! magazine that she eventually found catwalks 'triggering' but since quitting the industry is 'loving life' in the country. 

She said: 'I was exhausted, feverish, anxious. I'm a country girl, I'm normally out baling hay, feeding the animals and suddenly I was in these big cities not looking after myself, not eating well, not sleeping, just flying around the world. 

'I literally did not stop then my body went, '"I'm not doing this". I was at the absolute height of my career, I had campaigns, shoots left, right and centre but I was fried and one day I said, "I won't do another catwalk", I found it triggering.' 

She added: 'So I moved to the countryside started growing veg, riding horses again and getting my nervous system back in order. I needed nature trees, animals, my friends and family and slowly I got better. I love the life I have now. 

It comes after Jodie's fiancé Joseph bravely opened up about his struggle with alcohol as he reveals his failed attempt to go sober last year.

The former Royal Marine, 40, who has been engaged to the catwalk icon since 2021, reflected candidly on his relationship with drinking and the 'selfishness, self-doubt, and negative tendencies' that creep in whenever he consumes alcohol.

Taking to Instagram, the entrepreneur wrote: 'I stopped drinking last year for nine months. I struggled with alcohol - not so much the amount I drank (although I did go for it often), but more with how it affected how I felt and, more importantly, how I treated others.'

He continued: 'Selfishness, self-doubt, and negative tendencies always crept in when alcohol was thrown into the mix, so I decided to stop.'

However, after nine months of abstinence, Joseph tried to reintroduce drinking last summer, believing he had 'changed' during his time away from alcohol.

'It had been long enough without it, so surely I had changed?' he wrote. 'Surely my monk-like thinking would never allow the 'regret fuel' to take hold again and drag me back to my historic negative ways?

'Oh dear. How wrong I was. After my sober lubricant renaissance, all the thoughts came flooding back. Negative self-worth and impostor syndrome ran through my veins, and I was suddenly feeling like I had years ago.'

He added: 'Alcohol is a medically proven progressive issue for those who experience detrimental thoughts and take detrimental actions when consuming it - aka, you get worse at it the more you practise it. That's f*cked up.'

Following that failed attempt, Joseph - who started dating Jodie in 2017 after they met the year before through raising money for a military charity - revealed he has now been sober since last summer.

'Since that so-called renaissance last summer, I haven't drunk again. And honestly, I needed to revisit it to fully understand my allergy to it,' he wrote.