Lisa Carter – Seeing my photo in the window of Ladies Realm

Lisa: Yeah, I know I remember when I was later on modelling in London for some older women’s clothes, and I saw my picture in Lady’s Realm in Ryde (laughs) because they were obviously stocking that brand of clothing.

Simon: Ok, so it was some publicity shots.

Lisa: Yeah, their promotional material. I was in their Catalogue for the brand of clothing which they’d obviously used one of the images to put in their window to advertise …(laughs).

Simon: What was that like?

Lisa: (laughs). So weird. Nowadays I think it’s a lot better that people use older models if it’s for older clothes ‘cos what older woman wants to see a 19-year-old wearing her clothes to advertise to her? You know surely you’d want to see someone your own age looking fabulous in your clothes, not you know, a girl. I think I would find that difficult so I’m glad that times have changed and you’ve got all these gorgeous older women now modelling as well. That’s how it should be really I think.