A woman who was bullied at school for being ginger has had the last laugh by becoming a beauty queen, with her sights set on representing England at Miss World.
Jessica Gagen, 26, was punched, spat at and even burned because of her red locks after being tormented by cruel classmates when she was a teenager. She was also subjected to name-calling, having things thrown at her head and was forced to eat her school dinner in the toilets in a bid to escape the abuse.
But after being signed up by a modelling agency after her A-Levels, Jessica's confidence grew as she took to catwalks across the globe. She went on to enter Miss England and became first place runner-up in the grand final last year, narrowly losing out to Rehema Muthamia.
