A skinny malinky? Not me, says Lucy; FASHION: I'm bigger and better, insists 27-year-old on her return to modelling.Byline: Anuji Varma WHEN stunning Lucy Shropshall was 15, she was plucked from thousands of model wannabes Wannabes is an online interactive soap and game created for the BBC by Illumna Digital. Wannabes follows on from Jamie Kane, the BBC's previous foray into online interactive drama. The show/game consists of 14 10 minute episodes released twice a week. at the Clothes Show and described as the next Claudia Schiffer Claudia Schiffer (born August 25, 1970[2]) is a German supermodel and actress, who reached the height of her popularity during the 1990s. Schiffer is one of the world's most successful supermodels, appearing on over 500 magazine covers[3][4] . Agents clambered to sign the 5ft 10in blonde from Worcester. For the next five years Lucy was sucked into the glamorous world of modelling, strutting down the catwalk for Vivienne Westwood Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI, (born 8 April, 1941) is an English fashion designer largely responsible for modern punk and new wave fashions[1]. She is linked with the Sex Pistols via Malcolm McLaren and their SEX/Seditionaries , partying with Robbie Williams and jetting around the globe to exotic locations for shoots with top photographers. But it all came to an end when the beauty decided she wanted to study for a degree in interior design. Fed up of the backstabbing back·stab tr.v. back·stabbed, back·stab·bing, back·stabs To attack (someone) unfairly, especially in an underhand, deceitful manner: and bitching the industry is well-known for, Lucy went to Wolverhampton University. Now, aged 27, she's back, but this time as a plus-size - or "real-size" - model as she likes to call it. "I want to champion the bigger sizes. I'm not a skinny malinky anymore," she says. "If I was any thinner I would look ill," adds Lucy, now 6ft 2in and size 14-16. "I don't diet, but I eat healthily and that's really important." Lucy went back into full-time education when she turned 20 but not after making her mark on the fashion industry. She came joint first in the Elite Modelling competition in the UK and third in the company's world heat, which had 12,000 girls vying for the top spot. She was asked to model in a Vivienne Westwood catwalk show, had contracts with the Sock Shop  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . and Yardley, and her pictures appeared in magazines, including Marie Claire. She also snubbed an offer to work for Giorgio Armani because of the harsh criticisms he would bestow upon his models. But as she got taller, the jobs started to slow down and Lucy learned about the reality of the industry. "I decided that I wanted to go back into education," she said. "I knew that I couldn't be a model forever and needed something to fall back on." She took herself off to university and enjoyed the experience. Then, in 2006, she fell back into modelling by accident. "I volunteered to do some lingerie modelling for my tutor and there happened to be quite a noted photographer at the shoot," she recalls. "He knew who I was and said I would make a great plus-size model." From that moment on Lucy decided to return to the industry part-time. "Now I am working, I really do enjoy it," she says. "I am also the PR manager for the firm Gtech in Worcestershire, so I juggle between the two." CAPTION(S): Brains and beauty: Lucy today and (inset) on her modelling assignments. |
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