Nicole Scherzinger shows off her very toned curves in a tiny black bikini as she celebrates her 46th birthday - after discussing baby plans

Nicole Scherzinger showed off her sizzling curves in a black bikini as she continued to celebrate her 46th birthday after opening up about baby plans with boyfriend Thom Evans.

The former Pussycat Doll struggled to contain her ample assets in the skimpy two-piece, which boasted a white trim and tie side bottoms.

She posed displaying her sculpted abs and toned frame for a slew of racy Instagram shots, as she celebrated the milestone birthday in a lavish location in the mountains.

The US star posed for a series of jaw-dropping snaps in front of a stone wall, sporting a pair of chic shades and rouge lipgloss, as her raven locks were in an up-do.

'Stepping into a another year around the sun like ☀️,' she captioned.

Nicole Scherzinger showed off her sizzling curves in a black bikini as she continued to celebrate her 46th birthday after opening up about baby plans with boyfriend Thom Evans

Nicole Scherzinger showed off her sizzling curves in a black bikini as she continued to celebrate her 46th birthday after opening up about baby plans with boyfriend Thom Evans

The former Pussycat Doll struggled to contain her ample assets in the skimpy two-piece, which boasted a white trim and tie side bottoms

The former Pussycat Doll struggled to contain her ample assets in the skimpy two-piece, which boasted a white trim and tie side bottoms

Thanking fans for the sweet birthday messages in a post from Sunday, Nicole wrote: 'Overwhelmed with all the birthday love from y’all. Thankyou God for another year around the sun. Not just any year— possibly my most daring, brave and redefining year yet.

'Thankyou for your grace as you continue to grow and evolve me. Thankyou for the joys and laughter, the struggles and scars.

'Thankyou for the fight that lives within me to never give up and for the surrender and serenity when I need to let go.

'With each breath I take, I am so eternally grateful…for everything. For it’s made me the woman I am today. I love you all! Thankyou for loving me as I am, for who I AM. xoxo'. 

Nicole's birthday post comes after she admitted time is against her as she shared her desires to have a child with her fiancé Thom Evans.

The superstar shared how she wants to become a mother but it has so far been impossible with her packed schedule of work commitments. 

Hot off an extremely successful West End run, the Norma Desmond actress is just weeks away from returning Sunset Boulevard to Broadway.

Nicole is, however, adamant that the time is coming for her to start a family because 'the clock is ticking'.

She posed displaying her sculpted abs and toned frame for a slew of racy Instagram shots

She posed displaying her sculpted abs and toned frame for a slew of racy Instagram shots

The American star posed for a series of jaw-dropping snaps in front of a stone wall

The American star posed for a series of jaw-dropping snaps in front of a stone wall

She sported a pair of chic shades and rouge lipgloss, as her raven locks were in an up-do

She sported a pair of chic shades and rouge lipgloss, as her raven locks were in an up-do

Nicole thanked fans for the sweet birthday messages in an Instagram post from Sunday

Nicole thanked fans for the sweet birthday messages in an Instagram post from Sunday 

She told The Times on Thursday: 'Oh my gosh, I would love to [have a baby]. I've never shied away from that. I can't wait. It's like the clock is ticking.

'I want to have a baby but work calls. But I'm going to have to make time because, yes, I cannot wait to have children.'

When asked if her mother is putting pressure on her to have children Nicole said: 'No, because my mother knows how hard I work and how passionate I am about what I do. 

'She is a faithful woman and she just knows, everything in God's timing.' 

Nicole has been dating Scottish ex-rugby union player Thom since 2020 and they got engaged in 2023. They met in 2019 on The X Factor: Celebrity.

She said of the former model: 'It's nice, because he likes a system - he's extremely organised and he's extremely on time, which is the opposite of me, so he makes me so much better in that way.

'I don't know if all rugby players are like this but he's the cleanest. He's OCD like me and I just love it. It's great.'

Prior to Thom, Nicole was in a very high-profile on again, off again relationship with Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton from 2007 to 2015. 

The former Pussycat Dolls frontwoman has also been engaged once before: to Nick Hexum, lead singer of 311, whom she dated from 2000 to 2004.

Another potential barrier to motherhood for Nicole is the abandonment issues she has been open about having.

Her father Alfonso Valiente 'walked out on Nicole and her mother Rosemary Elikolani when she was just three years old'.

While Nicole grew up with a loving stepfather Gary Scherzinger, who adopted her as a child and took his surname, the actress admitted the abandonment still affected her.

Speaking on the How to Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast in March, Nicole said: 'I definitely have abandonment issues and that is because my actual biological father did leave me, I think when I was three.

'And so I didn't think it would ever affect me, but I guess somewhere it did affect me. So, I definitely have my own issues with that for sure.'

Nicole also has a younger half-sister Keala. Her younger sibling shares the same mother as the singer but have different fathers.

'I have really strong abandonment issues, unfortunately, which is wonderful for my character, Norma in [Sunset Boulevard]. See, it all ties back to that.

'It brought me back, and Norma has huge abandonment issues. She feels so abandoned in her life, so empty, so lonely, and it all just ties into it. It's like, it was just a line meant to be that I was meant to play this role one day.'

Nicole's birthday post comes after she admitted time is against her as she shared her desires to have a child with her fiancé Thom Evans (both pictured in February)

Nicole's birthday post comes after she admitted time is against her as she shared her desires to have a child with her fiancé Thom Evans (both pictured in February)