A teenager with dreams of becoming a glamour model has said she will never have liposuction after witnessing the surgery first-hand.

Natasha Sturt, 18, took part in a BBC3 programme called Nip and Tuck: My Big Decision.

The hairdressing student and 18-year-old Samm Barton, from Wales, took a road trip with their families to see whether they really wanted to go through with the procedure.

Both girls were desperate to have the cosmetic surgery in their pursuit of a perfect body.

Natasha, who attends Chichester College, wanted go from a size 12 to a size 8 to help her reach her aspirations of becoming a glamour model.

She said: “I want to be a glamour model and I want that perfect body to go with the image and I thought liposuction would be a quick fix.”

Natasha, of Buttercup Way, Southwater, near Horsham, said she was called a lot of nasty names in relation to her body and the way she looked at school.

She says she likes her body from the shoulders up but not the rest of it.

During the trip with her mother Teresa, Natasha met a group of seven women who had all lost weight. She had to guess which ones had lost weight through diet and exercise and who had used surgery.

One woman, who had lost three stone naturally but then had a tummy tuck and liposuction, warned the girls off surgery.

She and Samm also went into a private operating theatre to watch 33-year-old Naomi Clark going under the knife to go from a size 14 to a 10-12.

Natasha said: “It was absolutely disgusting and it put me off having the operation for life.”

Her decision was confirmed when she met celebrity fitness trainer Mark Anthony who took them through a diet and exercise plan to show them how they could lose weight naturally.

She said: “As soon as I met him and he said he was Katie Price's trainer my ears pricked up.

“I started to change my mind about the operation. He really knew what he was talking about and he had so much energy and loved his job. He made it seem so easy, which it is.”

Natasha is still planning on pursuing a career in glamour modelling but has decided to continue with her hairdressing training for the time being.

She said her mother and brother Adam, 21, were relieved she had decided not to have liposuction.

She said: “My brother thought it was a stupid idea although he's not that keen on me becoming a glamour model.”