With her glamorous looks and mile-long legs, Rosie Huntington-Whitely has topped both FHM and Maxim Magazine’s ‘sexiest woman alive’ lists.

The 24-year-old, who is setting up a love nest in Malibu with her boyfriend of over a year Jason Statham, is one of the world’s highest-paid models and has even been dubbed the next Kate Moss.

Hard to believe but but the Victoria’s Secret model and Transformers actress reveals that she was actually bullied as a kid for her looks

Rosie admits she was a late bloomer in the looks department – in addition to bad skin and braces, she was bullied relentlessly over her to-die-for pout.

Even her surname caused her grief growing up. ‘We always used to tease her about her double-barrelled name and how posh it sounded.’

It was during the summer of 2003, just before she entered the sixth-form, that Rosie did work experience at Profile model agency, making tea and photocopying.

It was to change her life.

‘I was shocked,’ she says. ‘I was just a big lump from Devon. When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I had a real baby face and baby fat.