While the typical fashion model is tall and thin, the advent of the more voluptuous Sophie Dahl on the scene may have given hope to many. As well as ramp and photographic modelling, there are opportunities in the commercial area.

There is room for all sorts of people for all sorts of things, says Daniels. It could be your beautiful hands which get to rub in that moisturiser or your eyes that get to blink away the rest of that mascara while the rest of your body may be nowhere in the picture. Advertisements feature everyone from new-born babies to great grandfathers, adds Daniels.

Rebecca Morgan says, if you want to make a full-time career in modelling, you must be prepared to travel - "Milan to build your book (portfolio), Germany for catalogue work, London and New York for both and Japan to make money."