Peru Two drugs mule Michaella McCollum slipped into a red bikini to show off her growing baby bump.

The convicted drugs smuggler confirmed her pregnancy last month.

The 24-year-old former model wore her sizzling bikini with a matching cover-up and a slick of scarlet red lipstick in the racy post.

"Bumping around poolside #downtime #babytime #eveningdip," she commented.

The glamorous post is a far cry from 2013 when Michaella, who hails from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, was jailed for attempting to internationally smuggle drugs - with partner Melissa Reid the pair served two years in a Peruvian jail.

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Michaella McCollum shows off her baby bump in a racy red bikini (
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She's been living the high life

She announced that she's expecting by posting a black-and-white picture of her baby bump last month.

"Wow had some crazy dreams... guess that's what happens when your dreaming for more than one (sic)," she wrote.

She had earlier sparked pregnancy rumours after being spotted looking at prams and picking out children's clothing on a shopping trip.

She could be seen lying down in Calvin Klein underwear, with her long hair down and her stomach on show.

The convicted drugs smuggler confirmed the news on Instagram today (
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A companion, sat behind her, could be seen touching her bump.

Michaella, who hails from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and fellow smuggler Melissa Reid were locked up in Peru, South America, in 2013.

The pair were stopped at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, when their luggage was found to contain £1.5million worth of cocaine.

They initially claimed they had been forced to carry the drugs by an armed gang, but subsequently admitted drug smuggling, Belfast Live reported.

They were each sentenced to six years and eight months behind bars.

Michaella, left, and fellow smuggler Melissa Reid were locked up in Peru, South America, in 2013 (
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Michaella was granted probation in 2016 and returned home that year.

Since her release, she has been spotted partying in Ibiza and Marbs, has got an agent and is thought to have made a documentary about prisons.

In contrast, Melissa works for a charity in Glasgow, Scotland.

A source told the Sun last year: “Melissa has been keeping her head down. She’s landed a role with a charity and is living a normal life."

Around six months after returning home, Michaella took to social media to thank everyone who had supported her and her family.

She wrote: “Now that I have the chance, I just want to thank everyone who has supported myself and family through these past few years.

Michaella, cuffed, arrives at court at Sarita Colonia prison in Callao October 1, 2013 (
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Melissa now works for a charity in Scotland (
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"Please know I truly appreciate each one who cared and had my back.”

She also said: “It has been a long ride to get where i am today but it just shows that when we fight hard enough for something we can achieve it.

“Something to have in mind; when one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

“Thank you for all the sweet messages I have not got reading them all just yet or got a chance to reply to them but I will definitely make a good attempt to get back to you all."

The pair have been dubbed the Peru Two (
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The post, in February 2017, was accompanied by a pouting selfie.

In a previous interview with the Sunday Mirror, Michaella described how she lived in a mosquito-infested prison cell with seven other women.

She claimed they shared an overflowing hole in the ground for a toilet - and the food given to them was crawling with maggots.

She also said she found the gangster inmates so ­terrifying she thought she was going to be “eaten alive”.

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However, she claimed she clawed her way up the jail pecking order by using money and M&S underwear sent by her family to fund a thriving beauty salon, which she ran from her cell.

Michaella was freed in March 2016 under new legislation but was required to remain on parole in Peru, the Daily Record reported.

She returned home in August that year.

Melissa had returned home two months earlier.