She welcomed her first child with boyfriend Paul Knightley fourteen months after they met.

And Sam Faiers revealed she is now angling to take their relationship a step further as she admitted to 'always dropping hints' about marriage to her beau.

As her words weren't enough, the former TOWIE star proved just how determined she is to get a ring on her finger as she tried on wedding occasion dresses during Wednesday's episode of The Mummy Diaries, despite the fact she's not engaged yet.

'It is a bit creepy I know,' she admitted when discussing the hints she had been dropping her beau, but continued: 'I vision myself getting married on a beach. I'd love to wear something that's still a wedding dress but has a sleeve like Kate Middleton.

'I want it to be really low-key and small, that's just how i picture it - like a 2/3 day thing.'

Her pleas did not go unnoticed, with sister Billie remarking: 'She's going about it the wrong way - she needs to be more subtle.'

Sam and Billie's mother Sue added: 'She's desperate to get married,' whilst their father Dave remarked there was 'no way in hell' the pair would tie the knot before Billie - who has been engaged to fiance Greg Shepherd for more than two years.

But in another bid to get herself down the aisle, Sam dropped the most extreme hint of all as she tried on wedding dresses after surprising Billie with a trip to a bridal boutique.

'If he saw you in a dress it might inspire him,' the shop owner explained to Sam, as she admitted: 'I told him I might and he said "I knew you would"'.

She reasoned: 'I'm not going to go all that way and not try a dress on! It just feels amazing, you feel like a princess.'

Giggling at the cheeky nature of the event, she sighed: 'I'm not even engaged, but I hope it won't be too long.'

And mum Sue also got caught up in the emotion of it all as she watched her daughters try on the gown, as she admitted: 'I've got a lump in my throat. I'm proud of them!'

Sam continued to drop yet more hints about marriage on a family holiday with Paul and their son, Paul Jnr, as she remarked at the vineyard they visited: 'I don't think I'd have my wedding here, I think its an acquired taste.'

Despite being met with silence, Sam was undeterred as she continued to discuss their fabled big day.

Whilst performing the iconic lift from Dirty Dancing together, Sam teased: 'I vision myself at our wedding doing the lift.'

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