Teenager Overcomes A Twisted Spine To Become A Model!

Standing tall: Leanne Roberts turned to non-surgical treatment to combat severe scoliosis and exercises to control her condition (Picture: Caters)

She once saw herself as a deformed hunchback but Leanne Roberts is now planning to re-launch her modelling career.

Miss Roberts, 18, has an S-shaped spine caused by scoliosis. It left her depressed and in frequent pain.

X-ray: Leanne Roberts’s curved spine (Picture: Caters)

Doctors told her she would need a 12-hour operation to correct the problem but she turned to London’s Scoliosis SOS clinic which gave her sets of simple exercises to do instead.

They worked and she is hoping to resume catalogue work. ‘I shouldn’t suffer from pain and my scoliosis should stabilise, I feel like I am in control again,’ said Miss Roberts from Barnsley