Model David Gandy reveals he ‘wasn’t far off minging’ as a teen

He's Britain's highest-paid male model and his chiselled, muscular frame has made him world famous, but David Gandy has admitted he wasn't always the best-looking man in the room.

The model reckoned he'd been through awkward teenage years just like everyone else and wasn't exactly fighting off offers of dates in his earlier years.

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Speaking to comedian Alan Carr for his Life's A Beach podcast, Gandy, 42, corrected Carr's assumption that he was popular with the girls as a teen.

He said: "They were not my good years. I think you have a different impression, I grew out and then up so I wasn’t in my best fighting fit form."

Carr couldn't believe it as he asked: "You were minging?"

Gandy replied: "Not far off!"

In the Noughties, Gandy became famous for a Dolce & Gabbana campaign for the fragrance Light Blue, which saw him lounging in a boat wearing just a tiny pair of white pants.

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The advert even graced a 50-foot billboard in New York's Times Square, but Gandy said: "I never saw the bloody thing...everyone was taking pictures of it but I never got to see it."

He became dubbed "The World's First Male Supermodel" and has had a hugely successful career, but recently told the Daily Mail that he didn't feel he was looking so good these days.

Gandy said: "I’m not particularly happy with the way I’m looking at the moment. I’m not at my fighting weight, as I call it…

"The two things that scare me is that apparently your ears and nose carry on growing."

The model from Billericay in Essex has two children with barrister partner Stephanie Mendoros - three-year-old Matilda and Tabitha, four months.

Gandy and Mendoros have been together for five years and he has previously dated Saturdays singer Mollie King.

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