Lingerie photoshoot for UK Calendar Girl competition restored Derbyshire mum's confidence in her body

Jordan Power, who lives in Holmewood, has been chosen as a semi-finalist in the UK Calendar Girls contest just weeks after narrowly missing out on the top three in Playboy’s lingerie model competition.

Online voting will begin for the calendar competition on Friday, June 9 and Jordan is hoping that she will get enough support to take her through to the final.

Jordan, who is a size 14/16 and has a 38DD bust, said: “Being chosen would mean the absolute world to me to prove bigger ladies out there are loved as well as others. Modelling is all I want to do; it's made me feel better/happy and now in love with my body again.”

The 36-year-old mum of three initially backed out of the calendar competition when her mental health took a turn for the worse but then reapplied and was chosen from thousands to attend a casting session last month.

“Something inside told me I needed to do it to see how I’d feel," said Jordan, who works for Tesco Mobile. “I had no money for hair and makeup so I did it all myself which was hard.

"As soon as I got there I had so many thoughts, one being "I'm not good enough". But as soon as a camera was on me in front of everyone I relaxed and realised this is quite powerful of being a woman. I didn’t think of myself as unworthy. I proved to myself I could do it and I never thought once about my own mental health. I absolutely loved it.

“My husband James said to me before I went in how proud he was of me which made me cry because he knows what I'm battling each day. When I came out he said I was a totally different person. I’m still proud because I did it and smiling like I haven’t in a long time.

"I'm just a normal working wife and mother who for once was a little selfish and thought about my own dreams. Win or lose, I’ve accomplished how someone like me can feel better about herself. The experience was life-changing.

“After this competition my aim is to get women who have felt down about themselves, have low esteem or struggling with mental health to see what something like this can do for them.”

Voting in the semi-final of the UK Calendar Girls competition opens on June 9 at 7.30pm and will end on July 7 at 11.59pm. Voting is via the website https://ukcalendargirls.co.uk. Click below the image of the contestant you want to vote for and you will be taken to an individual page where you can cast your vote.

The 80 contestants who win the most votes will go through to the final on August 26.

A percentage of money raised from the online voting will go to the Chestnut Appeal for prostate cancer and also Mental Health Awareness.