Former Page 3 model: 'We were like the Bond girls of our day'

“I was 23 years old when I posed for Page 3. We were like the Bond girls of our day – people would say hello to you on the street and ask you for your autograph.

“But it was very different in those days. They were very classy shoots – they used top photographers, we went off on location – I was sent to Bali once, the lighting was perfect. But we weren’t undressed and brazen, like the pictures today. We were draped in a cloth, it was more artistic.

“It was also much more honest. There was no digital photography, and the models weren’t flawless, like they are today, because they’ve been Photoshopped.

“Page 3 has changed. In my era women were respected and put up on a pedestal. It’s gone from sophisticated images of beautiful women, to a woman, with nothing on, with a ‘come and get me, I’m available’ expression on her face. To have those pictures in a newspaper sends out the wrong image and makes women unsafe. It’s not a good message.

“I have a daughter and I really wouldn’t want her to be any part of that industry.”