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Claire-Marie Harrison worried about being the tallest girl at school. Now, as SHEILA NIXON reports, she’s hoping to turn those extra inches to advantage by becoming a top model


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CLAIRE-MARIE Harri­ son had a complex about being the tallest girl in her school, but now she enjoys standing head and shoulders above the rest. It was because of her


the sophisticated femme fatale image. “I was as tall as I am now


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shapely ;M-2'I-M(! figure, long silky brown hair, and brown eyes. Her dedication is reflected in the fact, that at the age of IS, she can adapt her looks to any style — from the innocent look to


her parents’ home in VVhal- ley, to listen to her story about life as an aspiring model. She is part of a new breed of models who are putting the curves hack into the business after many years devoted to the skinny look. She is 5ft.9in. tall with a


wanted to look like when she was 15 now turn their admiring glances to Claire- Marie’s model looks and, no doubt, wish they bail her poise — and potential earn­ ing power. 1 visited Claire-Marie at


self-consciousness about her height as a lo-year-ohl schoolgirl that her mother told her to look on the posi­ tive side and introduced her to the idea of becoming a fashion model. Now, two years later, she has taken her first hold steps along the catwalk. And the-short girls she


when I was M and 15 and very unhappy ” said Claire- Marie. who used to attend St Augustine’s RC High School, Millington.“So my mum su g g e s ted 1 rang Pamela Holt’s modelling agency in Manchester to see


Hypnotised to give up smoking


course with Hying colours and then went back to her studies, transferring to St Mary’s RC College, Black­ burn, for A-levels. But by then Claire-Marie had set her heart on a modelling


SUE RITCHIE has tried a new weapon in her battle to give up smoking. So far it’s working


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addiction to that fatal weed — tobacco! But no longer— 1 hope! For having undergone a


labelled in the past. And all because of my


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for the greater part of 21 years, (oops sorry, forgot — 1 WAS a smoker), and although 1 had managed to s to p twice before had always found myself starl­ ing again when the going got extra tough. Knowing th is , th e re


course of hypnotherapy with Bricrficld woman Mrs Lorna Beck, I am keeping my fingers crossed that my craving has finally been laid to rest — once and for all. • 1 have been a smoker now


job, where stress can often be second nature. So when 1 heard of the


what was going on the whole time. In the pre-treatment dis­


cussion. Mrs Beck likened the hypnotic trance to that peaceful feeling we all get before dropping asleep, when even opening your eyes is ju s t loo much trouble. And that is ju s t what


happened, her soothing voice gently washing over me u n til I could have dropped off asleep quite easily. I was su re it wasn’t


seemed to he little hope of me ever giving up in my


smoking aversion therapy carried out by ex-senior nursing tutor Mrs Lorna Beck, I was straight on the telephone. She explained that the


•ready to let me give up smoking a week later. Apparently this is impor­


treatment took two ses­ sions. The first to see how well you coped with hyp­ notherapy and whether or not deep down you really wanted to give up. 1 was told willpower was


needed whatever 1 decided upon, whether acupuncture, hynotherapy or just plain “cold turkey", as everyone suffered from the with­ drawal-induced had moods. Well nothing ventured,


nothing gained. I presented myself on the doorstep of Mrs Beck's surgery. The usual practice is, of course, to go alone, hut having sat through stage hypnosis acts, I was making sure that someone was there to tell me what had happened. No- one was going to get me eating raw unions, I can tell you. But all my fears were groundless. 1 was aware of


tant. If your subconscious mind isn'L ready to give up smoking, you will find it even harder than usual. She then gave me some


session. Mrs Beck brought me hack to reality and con­ firmed that my body was


working for me, as I felt totally in control of my own body. But when I was told to respond to certain ques­ tions hv raising my index fingers, I found I couldn’t move them deliberately. It felt as though they were lloating up on a puff of air. After an hour-and-a-half


if I was su itable for a modelling course — mainly to improve my self-esteem." She passed a three-week


rolling in and she hopes it is only a question of time before the big break comes. Already she has had a few modelling jobs in various parts of the country and has


career and decided to leave college and r e tu rn to P am e la H o l t 's fo r a refresher course. The auditions are now


feel any different." I was sure it hadn’t worked for me.


“homework”. The first thing 1 had to do was change my usual brand of cigarettes, buying a d if fe ren t sor t every day.


make out a list of all the reasons why I wanted to give up smoking and read it as many times as possible.


The next thing was to


Having carried out these instructions, I duly pre­


sented myself for the final session. It was much easier to


to make an association with cigarettes and something that has made you physi­ cally sick in the past. I


roach the hypnotic state the second time around. The aversion session aims


began to understand what a laboratory beagle feels like w h en sh e jam m e d a cigarette in mv mouth at


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appears to have done for me, it is a lot cheaper in the long run than 21) cigarettes a day — and. of course, far healthier! But don't think that hav­


at i!25 an hour, a full course lasting anything from two and a half to three hours. But if it works as it


“The treatment works in SO per cent of cases, hut only with a lot of help from yourself." If anyone would like to


away most of the craving and relieve you of a lot of the stress that makes you so uptight. As Mrs Beck told me:


know more about hypnoth­ erapy for smoking, they can ring Mrs Beck on her home telephone number (>!l2:lli).


went immediately, hut then again Mrs Beck hail told me they wouldn’t. VVliat the sessions did do though is to prevent those awful attacks of anxiety and had temper th a t , in the pas t, have caused me to start again. The treatment isn't cheap


still hadn’t had a cigarette. I won’t say the cravings


Beck brought me round and, unbelievably, told me that I had been under hyp­ nosis for over ail hour. I left thinking: "I don’t


this stage — and forced me to smoke it until I felt sick and couldn't tolerate it any more. And that was that. Mrs


Vet four weeks later I


ing liynotherapy makes giv­ ing up easy — it doesn’t. What it does do is take


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