Outnumbered star's shock transformation as she poses in bikini a decade after the show

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Outnumbered star Ramona Marquez - who starred as Karen Brockman on the BBC Sitcom - has shared a snap of herself sporting a bikini.Fans of the show were shocked at the star's transformation as she looked unrecognisable from her character in the comedy.Ramona, who is now 22, rose to fame in the comedy series after she joined when she was only six reports the Mirror.Nine years after the show ended in 2014, the star - who studied Mandarin and Spanish at the University of Manchester - showed off a series of tattoos on her Instagram page.

In the snaps shared by the actress earlier in the week, Ramona can be seen wearing a white two-piece bikini alongside a piercing in her belly button.The 22-year-old also revealed an inking of a horse on the side of her forearm and another small tattoo of a cross on her finger.

However, despite the huge change - the actress has kept her signature curly hair. She held her phone over her face and posed in front of the mirror for a collection of snaps.

The Outnumbered star penned in the caption: "Just barbie things".Ramona played hilariously critical tot Karen from 2007 until 2014 when the show ended.Outnumbered returned for Christmas specials before wrapping for good in 2016.In 2009, Ramona became the first child to win the British Comedy Award for Best Female Newcomer.She appeared on the show alongside fellow child stars Daniel Roche, who was seven when the show began, and Tyger Drew-Honey, who was 11 at the time of the first series.Tyger Drew-Honey, who played Jake Brockman on the series, shared a snap of himself on Instagram revealing he has recently undertaken voiceover work.As he posted photos of himself in a recording booth on Instagram, he wrote in the caption: "Voiceover has been good