Rose Ayling-Ellis in Bathing Suit is "Almost a Mermaid"

Actress Rose Ayling-Ellis is on vacation this week. The EastEnders and Strictly Come Dancing star shared highlights from her trip on her Instagram story. In it, Ellis spent time by the beach and in the water. She wore a red bikini, showing off her figure. How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Rose Ayling-Ellis stays in shape and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!

1. She Goes Hiking

AELTC/Karwai Tang via Getty Images

Ellis is an avid hiker. She posts a lot of hiking highlights on Instagram. She shared this set from a hike in Laguna Aperon. Ellis captioned the post, “4,200m high, 26km long, 37,000 step, 10hrs dealing with altitude for the first time and battling against the sand flies. Definitely the toughest walk I’ve ever done. But I did it for my Granddad, it was his passion and love of hiking that kept me going. Despite knowing how much I dislike hiking growing up!”

2. She Learned To Dance

Karwai Tang/WireImage

Ellis, like many other of her Eastenders co-stars, was a contestant on the popular reality series, Strictly Come Dancing last year. She and her partner, Giovani Pernice, ended up winning the series, making Ellis the first deaf contestant to win the program. In this post on Instagram announcing herself as a contestant, Ellis opened up about joining the show. “If you had told me one year ago that I would be on Strictly Come Dancing, I would have laughed in your face! I am still pinching myself, it doesn't seem real.”

3. She Uses Muscle Memory

Rose -Ayling-Ellis/Instagram

Pernice opened up about his partnership with Ellis on the Strictly talk show, It Takes Two. Pernice revealed how Ellis remembers choreography. “We just now focus on the muscle memory more than relate it to the music,” he explained. “So in her brain there is still counting but remembering what she has to do.”

4. She Advocates For Representation

Rose -Ayling-Ellis/Instagram

Ellis played a deaf character on Eastenders, and she is fighting for representation for the hearing impared community. She opened up about it to the Edinburgh TV Festival. “How is a young deaf actor supposed to get their foot in the door, when the door is firmly shut on them from the start? It’s time for deaf staff to be brought into the scripting process if they want to be realistic. They will write my characters who are in a room with a big group of people arguing with each other, following everything that is being said and even repeating things back to them. Or they will write my character as lipreading someone from impossibly far away – like I have a superpower, which is not realistic at all. I am playing a deaf character that is either written as a hearing person or as a deaf stereotype.”

5. She Kayaks

Rose -Ayling-Ellis/Instagram

Ellis loves to go kayaking. She shared this photo on Instagram for International Women’s Day. Ellis captioned the post, “Here’s a photo of me that resonates deeply with me as, for me, the photo represents me being a woman. It is about being fragile but fierce. Strong but vulnerable. Kind but wild. Resilient but gentle. You can be who you want to be. Own it!”