Former glamour model Samantha Fox has lamented the loss of the ‘natural, girl-next-door’ look as she argued ‘peer pressure’ is pushing young women into cosmetic ‘tweakments’.
The 56-year-old rose to fame as a topless Page Three model in The Sun newspaper, where she appeared regularly from 1983 until around 1986.
Now, talking to the newspaper, she has revealed there was ‘nothing like’ the pressure young women face today when she was the same age.
‘It’s because of what the young girls are looking at, reality TV, social media, everybody airbrushing themselves, not making themselves look real,’ Ms Fox said.
‘Young girls have peer pressure to look a certain way. There was nothing like that in my day.’
Samantha Fox, 56, rose to fame as a topless Page Three model in The Sun newspaper, where she appeared regularly from 1983 until around 1986
She has revealed there was ‘nothing like’ the pressure young women face today when she was the same age
This pressure is pushing women towards cosmetic ‘tweakments’ like lip filler and Botox at a much younger age, Ms Fox said.
‘I’ve never had any work done,’ she added. ‘We didn’t try to look sexy, we were natural, the girls next door — and that’s why people liked us.
‘Unfortunately, that naturalness is going out of the window, as they now start cosmetic tweakments so young.’
The singer said this change is a ‘shame’, adding that if she had a daughter, she would not let her go into the modelling industry as it is today.
‘It’s because of what the young girls are looking at, reality TV, social media, everybody airbrushing themselves, not making themselves look real,’ Ms Fox said
This pressure is pushing women towards cosmetic ‘tweakments’ like lip filler and Botox at a much younger age, Ms Fox said
She added that ‘everyone is trying to have a real life filter on their face.
‘Once you start, people tend to carry on and that’s the scary bit.’
It comes after Ms Fox confessed she ‘didn’t want to show people’ she was in a ‘sad place’ after her partner Myra Stratton died in 2015 following a battle with cancer.
The former glamour model admitted she struggled with ‘pretending’ to be happy and ‘couldn’t write any songs’ for two years.
Having fallen in love again with her new wife Linda Olsen, 50, Sam revealed it’s only now that she’s ready to release new music, with an upcoming album on its way.
While attending the ICON Awards in Support of prostate cancer charity Prost8 on Friday night, she exclusively told MailOnline: ‘When my my ex-partner died, I was with her for 16 years and that’s a long, long time..
It comes after Ms Fox confessed she ‘didn’t want to show people’ she was in a ‘sad place’ after her partner Myra Stratton died in 2015 following a battle with cancer
The former glamour model admitted she struggled with ‘pretending’ to be happy and ‘couldn’t write any songs’ for two years
‘For two years, I couldn’t write a lyric. I just couldn’t write because everything I was writing was very sad and I didn’t want to show people I was in that sad place.
‘It was very hard for me to actually release anything at that time and go on stage and pretend to be happy. I was quite sad but time is a healer and then I met Linda.
‘I didn’t think at that age, I’d ever meet someone again I was going to settle down with for the rest of my life and I have and I’m in such a great place.
Pictured: Samantha Fox with her former partner Myra Stratton in London
‘You get to your 50s and you lose the, you know, Myra was the love of my life and we were together 16 years and I didn’t ever think I was going to be with anybody else.
‘I thought that was my life mapped out. So when I met Linda and I fell in love, it was instant love when we met each other. It really was and I’m just so happy.
‘I’m happy I’ve met such a wonderful, beautiful inside and out person and I can trust her implicitly. And she’s, as well as my mum being my rock, she’s my rock too.’
Samantha and Linda tied the knot in a lavish ceremony in Essex in July, after announcing their engagement in March 2020.
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