She left London’s spring sunshine wearing just a vest top. But on a day out in Los Angeles, it seems Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle felt the urge to cover up.

The singer, who has revealed a dramatically thinner silhouette of late, wore a brown vest dress and a white crochet style kaftan as she visited a health food juice bar with boyfriend Jason Bell

The top seemed a strange choice in the bright sunshine, but maybe the increasingly slender singer was feeling the chill.

The sight of her descending some steps outside a London studio in Bambi style sparked a rash of comments concerned that she has taken too readily to the Californian lifestyle.

But at the weekend she vociferously defended her figure, claiming skinny legs ran in her family.

‘I have always had incredibly skinny legs. It’s in my family. If anything I have put weight on since the last Girls Aloud tour,’ she insisted.

But pictures of the northern Irish beauty taken last year do not support her claim.

Nadine is clearly smitten with hunky boyfriend Bell, and the pair cuddled as they chatted with a friend.

Last year she said: ‘He plays American football and he is so smart. Not showbiz at all. He had never heard of [Girls Aloud] when we met through a mutual friend, but he’s a fan now.’

The couple started dating in September 2008 after first meeting in LA.

Source: DailyMail