Thirty years after Maurice Lewis first tried on his mother’s dresses and high heels, he has vowed to launch himself as a model to rival Katie Price.

It has taken Maurice 30 years and £8,000 of surgery to find true happiness as a woman.

Now Maurice has become Michelle-Louise, 39, of Peacehaven, and plans to smash the modelling industry’s transphobia.

She said: "I'm a sexy, sassy and classy woman - I think I look a bit like Marilyn Monroe.

"If the public think Jordan is ballsy they haven't seen anything yet. I'm a delicate flower with a stem of steel and would look better than her on Page three. I think I could be the next big model in the UK."