We all have parts of ourselves we don't like that much.

But while Strawberry Belle grew up hating her body, she now embraces it to the max by working as a body positive model.

She thinks her curvy frame is a "rock star" – even though things weren't so plain sailing when she was growing up.

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She's learned to love her size 18 curves, which she finds "empowered and sexy".

And instead of letting haters get her down, she feels sorry for those who try to make her feel bad about herself.

Strawberry told The Sun: "I grew up being very conscious of the fact that I was bigger than my friends, but looking back now I can see in reality I was so much smaller than I thought I was.

"I always felt like I had to apologise for my body, which makes me so sad to think about now."

The model said she spent many years feeling unhappy in her own skin and, as she grew up in the 90s, she feels she was "conditioned" to think being anything above a size 10 was classed as "obese".

She spent a long time working on herself – but then she gained weight all of a sudden.

Despite this, she didn't want to waste her time being hard on herself, so she decided to embrace her bod in all its shapely glory.

"I absolutely love my body now," she added.

"Of course I’ll still have days where I don’t feel 100% confident, but it’s so much easier to move past now.

"I never thought I’d feel as confident with my body as I do now."

There are times when Strawberry has to remind herself how far she's come as there was a point when she would never have believed this was her life.

She now works as a full-time content creator who makes a living off her image.

Now she gets lots of comments from people who are in awe of her – and some blokes even beg to take her out on dates.

The only downside is she receives cruel comments from trolls from time to time.

But, it doesn't get her down, as Strawberry just feels "sad" for anyone who spends their time being mean to others.

She thinks the only people they're really hurting is themselves.

Now Strawberry strives to "get a rise out of the troll", and simply uses them to boost her content even further.

When you're a content creator she said sadly the criticism is "inevitable".

Strawberry added: "It doesn’t bother me at all. Their engagement just pushes my content to more people so I embrace it.

"I’ll either ignore them or I’ll wind them up for fun. Sometimes my fans defend me which is sweet."

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