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<\/p>\nShe’s just getting her stellar modelling career back on track after a string of health problems stretching back more than two years.<\/p>\n
But even as she returns to full fitness, it seems supermodel Erin O\u2019Connor can\u2019t catch a break \u2013 as I can reveal that she has split up with her long-time partner, Steve Gibson.<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old former face of Marks & Spencer met the Irish businessman on a blind date more than a decade ago, and they have two sons \u2013 Albert, nine, and Eddie, four.<\/p>\n
But after all her health woes, including a nine-month bout of Strep A, glandular fever and a year of post-viral fatigue syndrome, the model is now keen to join the dating pool. \u2018She\u2019s single and ready to mingle,\u2019 one of her friends tells me.<\/p>\n
The couple had lived in New York but Erin recently said it was \u2018just me and the kids and two dogs. And my lovely sister, who is moving back to Ireland in a year, but for now is helping me with the children.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Erin O’Connor attends the Miu Miu Select event in London on Thursday, featuring a special curated selection of Miu Miu by Emma Corrin<\/p>\n
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Supermodel Erin O’Connor and her boyfriend, businessman Steve Gibson, have reportedly split up<\/p>\n
Erin \u2013 part of the same generation of big-earning supermodels as Naomi Campbell \u2013 added that she is enjoying this new stage of life. \u2018For once in my life, I\u2019m being in the moment,\u2019 she said. \u2018It makes me feel so heady. To be firmly rooted in the present makes me feel like I\u2019m probably drinking in life in a way that I never did before. So for once, I don\u2019t want to control or predict.\u2019<\/p>\n
Erin previously dated presenter Jamie Theakston and was linked to comedian David Walliams, but kept her relationship with 6ft 3in Steve secret for some time. She came clean in a 2017 interview, saying : \u2018We met on a blind date \u2013 terrifying \u2013- the first and last of my life.<\/p>\n
\u2018I had got to the point where I thought I would like to meet somebody tall, with a job that they like, and it would help if they were Irish, because there\u2019s an instinctual shared appreciation of humour. And there he was. We were friends for a while. There was no real romance, which I think is very good… but we got there in the end.\u2019<\/p>\n
Erin, who was talent-spotted by industry scouts as a teenager and once described by designer Karl Lagerfeld as \u2018one of the best models in the world\u2019, is now the face of British outerwear brand Marfa Stance.<\/p>\n
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