Ricki-Lee Coulter - Personal Life

Personal Life

At the age of 15, Coulter met Jamie Babbington, a builder from Gold Coast who was aged 23 at the time. They started "dating seriously" after about a year. Coulter and Babbington married at a secret location in Canungra, Queensland on 7 September 2007. Coulter took her husband's last name and became Ricki-Lee Babbington. The couple had their honeymoon in the Maldives for five weeks. The following year, on 18 October 2008, Coulter's publicist issued a statement that they had separated due to "distance and time apart". In December 2008, it was revealed that Babbington had found a new girlfriend. In an interview with Herald Sun's Jonathan Moran, three years after the marriage ended, Coulter revealed that she had experienced depression during her relationship with Babbington. "I was living my dream but behind closed doors my personal life was a mess. I felt alone, I bottled it all up and it made things worse. I wanted to give up everything. I wouldn't leave the house for days at a time. I'd sit in the house all day and do nothing".

Since September 2009, Coulter began dating personal trainer and aspiring model Richard Harrison, and in August 2010, the couple went public with their relationship. During an interview with Woman's Day magazine in January 2010, Coulter stated that she was proud of being a size 14 woman. "This is what I really look like. I'm proud to be out there promoting size 14 beauty. It's the average size of most women, and it's important for people to see that and know that's who I am too." Since meeting Harrison, she decided to lose 30 kilograms, which transformed her into a size 8 woman.