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BILLIE Faiers and her sister Sam reflected on their glamour model past in the season finale of The Mummy Diaries tonight.

The girls boasted they had "abnormally huge" boobs and were "snapped up" by the lads mags when they first starred on Towie.

Billie Faiers admits her 'abnormally huge' boobs landed her a modelling career
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Billie Faiers admits her 'abnormally huge' boobs landed her a modelling careerCredit: itvbe

"I'm not gonna lie, when I look at the magazines, our boobs were huge, they're a fraction of the size now," she said in the jacuzzi at a spa day with Sam and their mum Suzanne Wells.

"They were abnormally huge for my frame and then the lads mags snapped me up!"

Billie said she sometimes suffers with body confidence issues but praised the InTheStyle team for putting her at ease on a trip to Ibiza.

"What I love about being away with that team is everyone's so empowering to each other," she said.

Sam and Billie were regulars in the lads' mags
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Sam and Billie were regulars in the lads' magsCredit: itvbe

"I think some people might be surprised that I do feel body conscious sometimes.

"Ibiza I didn't feel 100% but the other girls make you feel so confident'." 

Sam agreed that body confidence is key: "Having that on a shoot does make you feel better and more confident."

Billie continued: "When we first started in the industry it was about sexy shoots, glamour, underwear and bikinis and when we used to do the glamour stuff it used to be about what men think...

Billie admits she struggles with body confidence
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Billie admits she struggles with body confidenceCredit: itvbe

"But now as women I care more about what women think and I don't care what men think and that's not because I'm married but I aspire for women to feel real and natural and like their curves."

Sam touched on the darker side of modelling and said: "When I look at the pictures, I'm not ashamed but thinking back to the days of shooting it was girls would have massive boobs, tiny waist, bigger lips and it was that feeling...

"[You think] am I good enough and that's not a nice feeling to have.

"We're in such a good place now with women empowering women and now I have a daughter I want her to grow up around this."

Sam wants to help women celebrate their curves
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Sam wants to help women celebrate their curvesCredit: itvbe

When Sam joined Towie in 2010 she said she was using the show to further her career in modelling.

She said at the time: "I’m hoping that being on the show will really help boost my profile.

"I’m a glamour model and I absolutely love it, but now fans will get to see what I do in my normal life."

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