Melinda Messenger, 51, looks unrecognisable 25 years after shooting to Page 3 stardom

PAGE 3 legend Melinda Messenger has been spotted looking unrecognisable with grey hair in an Instagram snap.

The model - who rose to fame in the late 1990s - has embraced her greys, and let her natural colour grow out.

Melinda, 51, looks worlds away from her curly blonde locks that she long sported on The Sun's Page 3 during her glamorous career.

Looking ageless and showing off her glowing skin, the model shot a wide smile towards the camera in the new selfie.

A far cry for her sultry bikini shots, the mother-of-three donned a comfortable t-shirt and denim dungarees in the laid-back post.

Sharing the snap to social media, Melinda could be seen pulling her hair off her face in a ponytail as she looked to go make-up free.

In the background, the star revealed a snippet of her home - including a comfortable sofa, house plants and calming white walls.

She penned to her fans about her greying hair: "Well like the trees leaves change their colour through the seasons so do we.

"Do I blend out the blonde or grow it out slowly? Any advice from my hairdresser friends welcome! #SilverHair #GreyHairTransition."

Her fans flocked to the comments section of the post, begging her to continue "growing out" her impressive white and grey hair.

“You look beautiful!” one praised, as someone else gushed: “You will rock the silver! Definitely grow it out!"

A third encouraged: “Grow it out and embrace what’s underneath!”, as a fourth concluded: “Grow it out, it will look fab!”

Melinda first rose to fame in 1997 when she appeared as a Page 3 girl in The Sun - quickly becoming a household name.

She started out on posters for Glevum Windows — then 25 and working as a customer service manager for a marketing firm — showing off her cleavage in sexy undies.

They proved so popular in Swindon that fans kept pinching them from bus stops.

She told The Sun in 1998: “People talk about the real deciding moments of their lives. For me, it came in one phone call from The Sun.

"It was like a thunderbolt. They had seen me, Little Miss Nobody from Swindon, posing in white lingerie on a poster for double-glazing.

“The man on the telephone offered me the chance to become a Page 3 Girl. I remember saying, ‘But I’m due in at the office’, before the full enormity of what he was saying hit me."

She made her debut in The Sun the following day, billed as the “girl for the Thrillenium”.

Since then, Melinda has quit modelling to have three children, as well as re-training as a psychotherapist two years ago.