Gemma Owen puts on a glamorous display in a white silk backless dress

Gemma Owen put on a glamorous display as she posed up a storm in Italy for her latest shoot with PrettyLittleThing on Sunday.

The 19-year-old former Love Island star wowed in a backless white silk gown for her gorgeous look as she worked on her best angles for the camera.

The amazing number featured a flattering halter neck design and clung to her toned figure in all the right places.

The beauty also showed off her legs, as the ball gown featured a daring thigh-high slit, while adding to her height in massive nude heels.

Gemma wore her usual sun-kissed tan and accessorized with striking gold jewelry while holding up a red rose for the shots.

Stunning: The 19-year-old former Love Island star wowed in a backless white silk dress for her gorgeous look as she worked on her best angles for the camera

She wore her brunette hair tied up in pretty tendrils around her face and went for a glamorous makeup look.

It comes after Gemma earlier this week discussed the heartbreaking loss of her beloved horse Sirius in a candid conversation on Wednesday.

The dressage rider said she will “never get over it” in a YouTube video that came just days after a beauty queen tragically died in her family’s stables.

On Tuesday, Jessica Whalley, 25, could not be revived by paramedics after she collapsed at Manor House Stables near Malpas in Cheshire, where she worked as a transport manager.

Speaking in the clip, Gemma updates her fans on her life and how she’s feeling after a “challenging few months.

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The Love Island star began: “The last month or two have been quite challenging, obviously we’ve lost my competition horse Sirius.”

She continued: ‘After that, I’m not going to lie, I really struggled. Just sort of getting over losing it.

“It all happened so fast, it was so shocking and then just kind of everything in my life and routine just sort of went away.

Pose: The amazing number featured a flattering halter neck design and clung to her toned figure in all the right places.

‘As you know I don’t have a few different competition horses – he was the only horse I had for the last five years, I had a very good relationship with him.

“It had a knock-on effect on everything, it had a huge impact on my confidence and how I felt in general. I felt pretty down, obviously that’s to be expected after losing an animal.

It hit me correctly.

“I’m in a better place now, I wouldn’t say I’m over it because I don’t think I’ll get over it properly.”

‘It all happened so fast, it’s not like I had time to process it properly and I couldn’t see it coming. it was overnight

‘I’m fine, I’m fine and I’m much better with myself. That’s how I keep going, I feel so much better and I keep busy.

“You feel a little guilty, now we have Faye, the new horse that I have rented until the end of the year.”

Gemma concluded: “But I wanted to do something, not fill that void and replace it because it would never be.” But I just needed the horses and that was my safe space.

Last month, following the death of his horse, he explained: “On Friday we lost the horse of my life to sudden and serious illness. Words cannot describe how much this horse meant to me and my family.

“He was truly one in a million. Everyone who knew Siz will know how amazing and loving his temper was.

” He was taken away too soon, he has left us all heartbroken and in complete shock.

‘You taught me so much Siz and I can never thank you enough, you brought so much joy and happiness to our lives and you will never be replaced. I love you infinitely.

Gemma’s update came after a beauty queen who died in Michael Owen’s stables fainted after falling from her horse, her heartbroken family said today.

Jessica Whalley, 25, could not be revived by paramedics after she collapsed at Manor House Stables near Malpas in Cheshire, where she worked as a transport manager.

Speaking to MailOnline on Wednesday, a relative said he understood Miss Whalley “passed out before falling” from a horse. She added: ‘What can I say? It’s a terrible shock.

Miss Whalley’s friend, Allison Samuel, previously claimed the beauty queen died just days short of her 26th birthday on Saturday, also saying she died after falling from her horse.

But sources at the stable denied this, insisting it would be “premature” to say so, calling it “an incident” not an “accident”.

It comes as the Health and Safety Executive confirmed today that it would not investigate the tragedy because the concussion death was not believed to be ‘work related’.

Mrs Samuel, who used to work with Miss Whalley at Newmarket stables in Suffolk, said Sun: ‘I just couldn’t believe it, we loved her so much.

‘She was a lovely girl who really enjoyed her job. She was popular, everyone liked her, and she was a lovely young woman. This is so unexpected, she was so fit and healthy.

And also beautiful, she could have been a model. It’s a tragedy, it would have been her 26th birthday this Saturday. We have been told that it was a very sudden blow and [she] he fell from his horse, so it was a terrible blow.

Loss: It comes after, earlier this week, Gemma discussed the heartbreaking loss of her beloved horse Sirius in a candid conversation on Wednesday

Tragic: Gemma’s update came after a beauty queen who died in Michael Owen’s stables fainted after falling from her horse, her heartbroken family has claimed

The stables declined to comment further when approached by MailOnline about the claims about the horse.

A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said: “While we have been made aware of this incident, we are not currently investigating the circumstances as we do not believe it is a work-related death.”

Owen and his staff are said to have wept profusely after Miss Whalley’s death.

A spokesperson for the HM Coroner’s office for Cheshire confirmed to MailOnline this morning that the death was referred to their office yesterday, but no decision on an inquest has yet been made, with the case still “in its early stages”.