They used to tease me at school for having big breasts and now I’m a lingerie model

An Interior Design grad who was forced to wear baggy clothes after being teased at school for having big breasts has beaten the bullies to become a sexy underwear model for curvy women.

Make-up artist Danielle Fearon, 24, was picked on by cruel classmates when she started developing earlier than other girls as a shy teenager.

Danielle, who recently graduated from Southampton Solent, was so ashamed of her 32DD figure she covered up by wearing frumpy unflattering clothes after bullies accused her of stuffing tissues down her bra.

They also spread rumours around her school about her using chicken fillets when she started wearing E and F cups in her later teens.

But Danielle has since conquered her body image issues to grow in confidence and recently posed in just her underwear for a fuller figure lingerie firm.

And she has now beaten thousands of other women from around the world to be chosen as a finalist for Curvy Kate’s annual “Star in a Bra” competition.

Single Danielle, who now boasts a whopping 30GG bust, said: “It started off at school with kids just being kids and came from jealous girls.

“There were lots of jokes around school about me and if we were in a food technology class and the teacher said chicken fillets then people would look at me and snigger.

“One of the jokes was ‘how do you know when I’ve got a cold? Because my boobs look smaller when all the tissues I stuff in my bra have gone’.

“I even heard a rumour that one girl had threatened to bring a pin to a party to pop the water bra that I was apparently wearing.

“Some of it was said to my face but most were just jokes going around the school which was hard to deal with at 13.”

She added: “I was quite a modest girl so I ended up wearing frumpy clothes because I didn’t want to show my cleavage off and get attention.

“It was either cover up and look really frumpy or wear what everyone else was wearing and look like I was trying to show off even though I wasn’t.

“It was quite hard in terms of confidence because I didn’t feel I could wear something as simple as a vest or normal clothes other girls my age were wearing.

“It was really frustrating knowing I was all natural but not being able to strip off to prove it.

“As I got older I got more body confidence by realising things you think are important when you’re younger aren’t anymore.

“I have become much more comfortable in my own skin and don’t feel like hiding myself away.

“I have always worn Curvy Kate and I just thought I would enter a few days before the closing date as a last minute thing.

“When I found out I was in the final I screamed a little bit – I’m still in shock now.”

Pint-sized Danielle, who is just 5ft 1ins tall, grew up in north-west London but now lives with her parents in Toddington, Bedfordshire.

She decided to enter the competition after finding an inspirational note left behind by her granddad Victor Galdes who passed away from cancer in September last year.

Danielle added: “The past year has been particularly difficult because I lost my granddad due to cancer.

“He was really inspirational and was a real character and if there was ever anything I wanted to do, he would say ‘go for it’.

“After he passed away we found a note in his holiday home in Malta he had written when he realised how seriously ill he was.

“It says ‘Whatever happens in life always remember to smile’ and that is what I decided to do.

“The thought of modelling has always been a distant dream and seemed an impossible with me being curvy and vertically challenged.

“But I would love to join the campaign in celebrating and promoting beauty in women of all sizes and give others the confidence to love their shape too.”

Danielle will now battle against 24 other women from all over the world in a public vote which ends on Wednesday.

The top 10 women will then be invited to London for a photoshoot and makeover with Curvy Kate before a final public vote in April.

And the overall winner will join the lingerie company’s curvy line-up at their summer shoot and be awarded a year-long modelling contract with Bridge Models Limited.

They will also win an all-expense paid trip to the Mediterranean for two with £1,000 spending money.

To vote for Danielle go on her Facebook page here.