Hello and welcome to Behind Closedores, the brand new PLT podcast. I'm Natalie and I'm

so excited to welcome our guest Felicity Haywood. She is a plus size model body confidence

activist, influencer and all-round badass. This old guy will pass me with his

toolkit on, I guess it was a builder, and he just went, oh, watch out you don't break the camera.

I was just like, are you actually joking? So I tweeted and I put number one, plus size women are

allowed to wear whatever the hell they want. Number two, this photo could pay mine and your rent mate.

Number three, the only thing that this, the only thing that this photo is going to break is the

internet sweetie with the peach emoji. Hi Felicity. Hi gorgeous. Thank you so much for coming in today.

You're welcome. It's amazing to have you here. We wanted to get you in today as obviously you are

just killing it at the moment, can I just say? Stop it sis. You are doing so much. And we just

wanted to get a slice of you really, you know, get to know you a little bit better. So firstly you

were a model and I heard you were first scouted in a London pub possibly dancing on the table.

Is that true? Yeah, I was dancing to Diana Ross at a pub in East London and got asked if I would

do a shoot as Anna and I got smith. I love that it was Diana Ross by the way, like what a song.

What song was it? You know what everyone asked me this and I never remember. So I feel like I can

always say one song and then in another interview, there'll be another one. So just like to be on

this babes, I was a little bit, um, Mary. You just can't remember. It was Diana Ross, it was disco,

it was fabulous. That's all I remember. As long as it was fabulous, that's all that matters. So

did you know at that moment, like this person's come up to you in a bar and he's asked you to do a

photo shoot. Did you ever imagine that that would lead you to where you are today? Because

no, of course not. I just thought the thing is I'm a Leo, it's my star sign. I am a natural

born show off and love it or hate it, but um, okay. So taking it back to when you first started out,

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