“When I first started modelling

and doing the travel that involves, I didn’t have time for exercise and I started to gain weight. It wasn’t that I didn’t like exercising, but I’d never done anything other than running after a ball with a soccer team. My agency overseas hinted that I needed to exercise. It was confronting and I got upset. But I was determined to be good at modelling, so I took up running. I watched exercise videos on Youtube in the lounge room of my apartment – 30-minute bumand-tum or Pilates clips. That worked because there was no-one around to see me looking silly. I got a kick out of the results – I saw them basically straight away. I wish I’d known sooner that being healthy is about 70 per cent diet and 30 per cent exercise. Even now as a qualified personal trainer, I struggle with cardio. I have no problem lifting weights and doing high-intensity activities, but I struggle to sit on a bike or treadmill for more than 20 minutes. The only way I get motivated for that is to be outdoors with scenery.” STEPHANIE CHERRY, model and personal trainer