Nicole Scherzinger: I love chocolate, cakes and pies

Nicole Scherzinger is a girl who bakes. Nicole Scherzinger loves to cook naughty treats at home.

The star admits she's 11lb heavier than in her Pussycat Doll days, when her toned stomach and perfect pins shot her to stardom.

'I love my pasta, my chocolate - I cook when I can,' says Nicole, 32, who's still a UK size 8.

'I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.'

Nicole, who hopes to become Mrs Lewis Hamilton soon, doesn't make working out her priority these days.

'For a couple of years, at the end of the Dolls, fitness was my life. I'm a lot more relaxed now,' she tells You magazine.

'I have been trying to be a little easier on myself.'