Portslade mother becomes magazine cover girl (From The Argus)
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Portslade mother becomes magazine cover girl
4:30pm Thursday 2nd September 2010 in
She usually spends her days working for an investment company, bringing up her two children, planning her wedding and fretting about the size her body.
But today a Portslade mother will be appearing on hundreds of coffee tables around the country.
Despite never modelling before Sarah Benham, 34, has been chosen to be the cover girl of Essentials Magazine which sells more than 20,000 copies every month.
The lifestyle glossy is the first of its kind to ban models, celebrities and any form of air brushing from its front page.
Ms Benham, who lives with her partner and two children Emily, seven, and Jack, five, in Mile Oak, Brighton, said: “I spotted the email from Essentials magazine asking for people to write a bit about themselves as part of a competition.
“I never really do things like this but I thought I would give it a go. I wrote about how hectic my life was looking after two children as well as working in an investment company four days a week, how I missed my sister who has just moved to Australia, how I am getting married in October and how I do have some body issues.
“I am a size 14/16 dress and it’s not that I have an ideal size in mind I would just like to look in the mirror and like how I look in what I’m wearing.
“I guess having kids meant I did put on weight and I haven’t always been happy about it since.”
Comments(11)
Ballroom Blitz
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7:49pm Thu 2 Sep 10
TheInsider wrote:I agree.
She looks very tasty to me. She's not orange either.
And given her job, she's obviously intelligent as well. Unlike 90% of would be models, who are mostly brain dead.
Betty Blue
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8:26pm Thu 2 Sep 10
Ballroom Blitz wrote:She works in a call centre, you don't need brains for that.
TheInsider wrote: She looks very tasty to me. She's not orange either.I agree. And given her job, she's obviously intelligent as well. Unlike 90% of would be models, who are mostly brain dead.
Jo-scuba
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8:38pm Thu 2 Sep 10
Jo-scuba
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8:39pm Thu 2 Sep 10
Betty Blue wrote:Miaow!!
Ballroom Blitz wrote:She works in a call centre, you don't need brains for that.
TheInsider wrote: She looks very tasty to me. She's not orange either.I agree. And given her job, she's obviously intelligent as well. Unlike 90% of would be models, who are mostly brain dead.
I love Sussex
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9:06pm Thu 2 Sep 10
Ballroom Blitz wrote:Very nice!!!
TheInsider wrote:I agree.
She looks very tasty to me. She's not orange either.
And given her job, she's obviously intelligent as well. Unlike 90% of would be models, who are mostly brain dead.
Tammy Flugh
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9:31pm Thu 2 Sep 10
Free advert alert!
jyan
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9:34pm Thu 2 Sep 10
Hope she wipes them clean after.
Poccypoc
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12:49am Fri 3 Sep 10
Poccypoc
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12:52am Fri 3 Sep 10
Wiggsy
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1:32pm Fri 3 Sep 10
Tammy Flugh wrote:Yawn...........
Free advert alert! Free advert alert!
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TheInsider says...
6:53pm Thu 2 Sep 10
She's not orange either.