Kate Upton has revealed that despite being one of the world’s most successful models, she still has body hang-ups like everyone else.

The model, who has recently got into acting, is on the cover of the August edition of Hello! magazine’s Fashion Monthly, and told how she was far from confident when it came to stripping down at the beach.

She said: “Bobbi Brown said this recently and I totally agree with her. I think all women are similar; we all struggle with the same things when it comes to body image and wanting to be beautiful.

“I’m the same when I’m on the beach with my friends or when there are paparazzi around, but being on a fashion shoot is like an acting job. I feel like I’m a different character and that character doesn’t get pangs of anxiety.”

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Kate Upton is the cover star of August’s Hello! Fashion Monthly (Hello!)

Kate added that she now took skincare more seriously: “I was a little tanorexic growing up in Florida, but I’m a lot smarter now.”

The 23-year-old has travelled the world as a model, but admitted that it could be a lonely life.

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Kate Upton (Evan Agostini/Invision)

She said: “I started working abroad when I was 15 and my mum and dad would often come. The thing is with modelling, you don’t actually need someone there; it just gets lonely.

“I pretty much had it under control because I travelled so much – land, go through customs, get in a taxi, go to the hotel, go to work… I had the whole thing down. But I’d get bored on the flights and it’s not fun to hang out with yourself for days at a time. It can be a solitary profession.”

The full interview appears in the August issue of HELLO! Fashion Monthly, on sale July 1 and available online.