I’ll get stick for piercing my baby daughter’s ears but she looks lovely in diamond earrings, says Towie’s Frankie Essex

 column about how Luella reacted, Frankie said: "Luella cried, but then I put a dummy in her mouth and she was laughing. She was absolutely fine, and then she forgot about it.

"She looks so lovely and Luke [her dad] thinks she looks really different. She has real diamonds in and she’s only six months old! She’s definitely my child.

"I don’t know if I’m going to get stick for getting them done because a lot of people have opinions about that.

"But if she didn’t get them done now, she would probably have to wait until she was a teenager, just getting it done now means it’s done, plus if she doesn’t like them when she’s older, she can take them out."

Frankie gave birth to non-identical twins Luella and Logan in June after falling pregnant with partner Luke Luv.

Their names both mean "warrior".

Frankie joined Towie as a background character in series two in 2011.

She was quickly promoted to a main character and shared many storylines with her brother Joey Essex.

Since leaving the show she's launched her own hair styling and product company Frankie Essex Hair.