A Cambridge University student has proved she has beauty as well as brains - by storming into the finals of a modelling competition.
Not your average beauty queen, curvaceous second-year student Emmalina Thompsell, who weighs 10st, was spotted by model scouts while out shopping in the city centre of Cambridge just two weeks ago.
Beauty queen: Size 12 Cambridge student Emmalina Thompsell hopes to prove she's got the brains and the looks when she competes for title of Miss East Anglia
And after sending in a portfolio of shots she has already made it to the final of Miss East Anglia by posing proudly in her bikini.
As well as proving you don't need to be stick-thin to succeed in modelling, Miss Thompsell hopes to shatter people's preconceptions about beauty pageants.
She said: 'Studies have shown that 63 per cent of girls would rather be a topless model or lap dancer than a doctor, lawyer or teacher.
Model student: Emmalina, 21, wants to show young girls that education is important
'I want to use this opportunity to show young girls that education is important, as someone that has prioritised my own education and worked really hard to get into Cambridge and get my degree.'
The 21-year-old will swap the classroom for the catwalk in a bid to impress the judges when she'll model evening wear, casual wear and swim wear at the Miss East Anglia heat.
If she wins the social and physical sciences student from Gonville and Caius college will go on to represent her region in the prestigious Miss England competition.
Measuring 5ft 5in tall and weighing 10 stone sporty Emmalina, who has takes a 31-inch waist and 36D cup size, keeps in shape by training with the British national handball squad.
Talking about the up-coming competition she said: 'It really isn't my scene and I'm not stick thin and I'm not a size eight but I am comfortable with my body and think I look pretty healthy.
'This just came along and I entered without really thinking too much about it and was surprised when I found out I was in the final - now it would be great to win.
'I want to show that not everybody who comes to Cambridge is like Gail Trimble - you can be pretty and clever.'
With four a-levels in maths, history, economics and critical thinking, Emmalina hopes her smart answers will impress the judges when she is interviewed at the final on June 14.
She has only recently told her parents Nicholas, a solicitor, and Amanda, a psychiatrist, she has entered the competition and said they had been supportive.
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