Kelly Brook regrets ever becoming a topless model and says she only did it to succeed as an actress.
The stunning brunette - who is engaged to Hollywood actor Billy Zane - tried and failed to become an actress in her late teens and turned to glamour modelling to "pay the bills".
The 26-year-old beauty told Britain’s Saturday Times magazine: "I would have loved to have stepped straight out of school into a Disney movie. That wasn't my path, for whatever reason.
"I knocked on the doors of numerous people and it wasn't happening. I thought: 'Well, I’m not going to give up!' Topless modelling ultimately makes becoming an actress harder, it doesn’t really serve.
"But it’s a short cut. It pays your bills. You get exposure. It gets you in the door."