Plus-sized model has to quit £2,000-a-day career after three-stone weight loss

A plus-size model who once earned up to £2,000 a day has found herself out of work after dropping three dress sizes. 

Rebecca Exton-Russell, 37, was formally a size 18 and posed in campaigns for major brands including Marks & Spencer, QVC and Dove.

But the Derby-based model was secretly 'repulsed' by her body, so she checked into a military-style fitness camp and lost just over two stone in two months - going down from 14 stone to just below 12 stone. 

Rebecca lost a further stone herself after she left No 1 Boot Camp in Norfolk - a reality TV star favourite - dropping to 11 stone, and slipping into size 12 outfits.

'I really don't mind losing all the work I once had at all because I am so much happier as a slimmer person,' she says.

Indeed, getting the toned stomach she had always craved meant her work completely dried up. Rebecca was now was too slim to fit into any of the outfits her clients expected her to wear.

'I realised that I had lost all this weight but I effectively made myself redundant from my job as a model,' she said.

'I didn't mind because although I was always happy to smile for the cameras, I was desperately unhappy as a size 18.

'I had very little self-esteem and had lost all my confidence. My body repulsed me. I knew that I needed to turn around my life and properly get in shape.

'Now I have the body that I always wanted, I hope to get work as a slimmer model.' 

'All the dresses I was being asked to model were way too big for me. They were hanging off me and I knew that chapter in my life had come to end.'

Now Rebecca has set up her own jewellery and gift business, Rebecca Louise, which she runs online and in pop-up shops across the UK.

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