Kelly Brook opened up about her reputation as a ‘sex kitten’ during Saturday night’s episode of I’m A Celeb.
The model, 45, was once voted the ‘sexiest woman in the world’ by FHM thanks to her well-publicised size 8 body and 32E chest.
And so far in the jungle the star has already sent fans into meltdown after showcasing her incredible physique in balcony bikini as she made her jungle shower debut.
Yet Kelly has insisted her body doesn’t match her personality and she is really a ‘clown inside’.
During Saturday’s episode fellow campmate Lisa Riley told her: ‘You’ve always been a sex kitten, you know that, you’ve made a career out of it!’
Kelly then replied: ‘Yeah but it’s weird, it doesn’t match your soul what you portray. The face and the facade and the body doesn’t match the person. I’m a clown inside!’
Kelly Brook laughed off being a ‘sex kitten’ as she insists her body doesn’t match her personality and she really a ‘clown inside’
The model, 45, was once voted the ‘sexiest woman in the world’ by FHM thanks to her well-publicised size 8 body and 32E chest (pictured in 1997)
Conversation then turned to whether men liked boobs or bums best, with Aitch chipping in: ‘It depends, but for the past year I’ve been a boob man.’
Probing further Ruby Wax asked if he liked bums and he said: ‘I’ve always been a bum man.’
She then asked him who had the better bum out of the three of her, Kelly and Lisa.
Avoiding answering, Aitch said cheekily: ‘I’ve not really looked. When you go up the stairs later I’ll let you know.’
Despite wanting to move away from being seen purely as a sex symbol, Kelly vowed to heat up the iconic Jungle shower with her selection of perfectly curated bikinis.
Before entering the jungle, Kelly told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I’ve got loads of different brands. I’ve got lots of different bikinis with me, so we haven’t actually selected the ones I’m going to be wearing in the jungle yet.
‘They’ve all gone off to wardrobe to get tested on camera, so they’ll decide for me.’
The Kent-born beauty, who landed her first modelling job at 16, will turn 46 in the Jungle.
Kelly insisted: ‘Yeah but it’s weird, it doesn’t match your soul what you portray. The face and the facade and the body doesn’t match the person. I’m a clown inside!’
Conversation then turned to whether men liked boobs or bums best, with Aitch chipping in: ‘It depends, but for the past year I’ve been a boob man’
The radio presenter got a modelling agent when she was just a teenager and soon became one of the biggest page three models in the U (pictured with Zoe Ball, Kelly, Melinda Messenger and Anthea Turner pictured in 1998)
When asked how she felt about that, she said: ‘I feel really confident. I feel really strong. I feel like my body’s in, you know, in good shape. I just feel great. I mean, yeah, I’m 46 and I embrace my curves. I embrace my body.’
Kelly previously admitted she finds it ‘very uncomfortable’ that she was sexualised from the age of 16 after a swimsuit photoshoot kickstarted her glamour modelling career.
The radio presenter got a modelling agent when she was just a teenager and soon became one of the biggest page three models in the UK.
Speaking on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast, Kelly revealed the swimsuit photoshoot in Portugal was her first ever job and entering into the industry so young, made her ‘grow up really quickly’.
Kelly said: ‘My first job was glamour modelling. It was on a swimwear shoot in Portugal on a beach with amateur photographers, not even professional photographers. They would pay to take pictures of you and your bikini. That was a job.’
When Elizabeth asked how it made her feel, Kelly said it was ‘quite strange’.
‘I had to grow up really quickly. I went to school in London from the age of 11. I would get on the train every day and I was very grown up for my age,’ she said.
‘I didn’t have much of a childhood in terms of that. It was like going to school in London was quite a big deal and I wasn’t chaperoned or anything, so I always felt older than my years and quite mature for my years anyway.
‘Being sexualised like that at such a young age was very uncomfortable. I’ve never felt like a sexy woman. I’m like a clown. I like to make people laugh.
‘I like to have egg on my face, I’m like quirky in that respect so to be sexualised and to be seen as sexy was just a bit of a strange thing that didn’t really resonate with my soul. My physical appearance and my soul are two different things.’
Kelly admitted she never actively set out to have a career in glamour modelling but fell into it.
It began after she won a beauty competition, into which her mother had entered her. She soon became keen to earn money in the hope it would help her life at home.
Kelly said she naively thought success and money would stop her parents from fighting and drinking heavily.
She said: ‘The swimsuit job actually was something that came along through someone that knew my mother at the time, actually so that wasn’t something that I necessarily pursued.
‘I got a model agent from the age of 16. She was a lady called Samantha Bond, and she looked after a lot of glamour models.’
‘I couldn’t really sign with a fashion agency at that time because I was very curvy. I remember going into the agency in my school uniform and I said, “I won’t do page three and I won’t do topless, but I’ll definitely do lingerie and swimwear”.
‘I was very happy with that and they booked me for lots of different jobs. I did pop videos and commercials and all sorts of things. I had a couple of years of working quite a lot and really enjoying myself and doing quite well.’
