Curve model who felt 'fat and disgusting' at size 8 is now thriving at size 18

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Pearl Froud, 23, is a full-time model and content creator from Surrey, UK, who turned to modelling during the pandemic.She’s taking the industry by storm, having already worked for the brands In The style, JD Sports, Fat Face and Chi Chi London.READ MORE: Plus size model cruelly called 'beast' defies trolls to flaunt curves in bikiniThe bombshell is also empowering women online with her body positivity content – but it was a long journey for her to get here.Pearl spoke exclusively to the Daily Star about how while she hasn’t overcome all of her own insecurities, it’s about faking it until you make it.“I think if you have suffered with body image at one point in your life it will never disappear,” she explained.“Although body image focuses on your physical appearance, it has everything to do with your mind.

When I was a UK size eight I felt fat and disgusting, I had fallen from a size 16 to a size eight in about nine months.“It was incredibly unhealthy, I thought my mind would stop torturing me when I was smaller because that was what I thought I wanted.”Because all her friends who were that size looked amazing she thought she would too – but when she reached her goal she says she had never felt more miserable and obsessive with her appearance.But when the model was a size 20 she realised she’d never felt more content in her life.It wasn’t until her body “looked like everything I hated” that she started to realise her body wasn’t the problem to begin with.Pearl continued: “[The problem] was my mind and the way I allowed myself and society to speak to me in such negative and abusive ways.“I’m sure I share many physical features with most people, I chose to show my lumps and bumps not to highlight them or to make a.