Kirsten Imrie

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Kirsten Imrie
Born
Kirsten Fifi Imrie

(1967-10-26) 26 October 1967 (age 56)
Kensington, London, England
Other namesKirsten Stewart
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Kirsten Fifi Imrie (born 26 October 1967) is a former Page 3 girl, glamour model, and television presenter.

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Career

Imrie was born on 26 October 1967 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Kensington, London, and raised in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland from the age of three. [1] After leaving school at the age of 16, she worked in various blue-collar jobs in the Edinburgh area. [2] Aged 18, she married a local man from Haddington, East Lothian, but the marriage soon dissolved. [1]

Imrie then moved to London and began a glamour modelling career. [2] She started appearing as a Page 3 girl in The Sun in November 1988, shortly after her 21st birthday, and continued to appear regularly on Page 3 until August 1993. [3] She also posed nude for a wide range of men's magazines, including the US edition of Penthouse , which featured her as its cover girl and Penthouse Pet for December 1989 (modelling under the pseudonym Kirsten Stewart). [4] She continued to pose for glamour photographs through her late 30s, appearing in the April 2007 edition of Mayfair magazine at the age of 39. [5]

Imrie also worked as a television presenter. In 1995, she appeared on the newly launched adult television channel Television X. [6] In 1996, L!VE TV recruited Imrie as a television sports presenter. She replaced another former Page 3 girl, Gail McKenna, who had moved to the channel Five. [7]

Controversy and personal struggles

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, British tabloid newspapers regularly featured stories about Imrie's jet-setting lifestyle, her alleged alcohol and cocaine abuse, [8] her celebrity relationships, and even her alleged lesbian affairs with other glamour models. [1] [9]

In the 1990s, Imrie struggled with debt. On 27 September 1994, when she appeared in a London court on charges of driving under the influence (DUI), her solicitor told the court that she was no longer receiving regular modelling work, was struggling under a "mountain of debt," was living on unemployment benefits, and was "almost on the breadline". [7]

In November 2000, tabloid newspapers ran stories reporting that Imrie was penniless and sleeping rough on Clapham Common, having sold her house to pay off debts. [8] [10] [11] The tabloids later claimed that readers' donations had enabled Imrie to rent a flat in South London, resume her modelling career, and turn her life around. [12] [13]

In 2003, Imrie spoke about her homelessness and addiction problems in the UK television documentary The Curse of Page 3. [14]

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  2. 1 2 Davidson, Gina (29 October 2002). "Addicted to the High Life at All Costs". Edinburgh Evening News.
  3. ↑ "Kirsten Imrie Homepage Page3.com". 14 January 2010. Archived from the original on 14 January 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  4. ↑ Penthouse magazine, Volume 21, Issue 4 (December 1989)
  5. ↑ Mayfair, Vol. 44, No. 4 (April 2007)
  6. ↑ "A Star is Porn: Family Fury as Kirsten is New TV Sex Queen". Sunday Mail. 4 June 1995.
  7. 1 2 "Topless Angel's Going Bust: Drink-drive Shame of Dole Model". Daily Record. 28 September 1994.
  8. 1 2 Bussey, Emma (5 November 2000). "Page 3 Kirsten is Tramp Sleeping on Park Bench". Sunday People.
  9. ↑ "Page 3 Helen let me tie her to the bed" James Weatherup, News of the World, 23 October 1994,
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