As one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s, we’ve all seen our fair share of Page Three pin-up Samantha Fox dressed in, well, very little. But even after she quit glamour modelling and turned her hand to pop stardom, there was one thing she would never be pictured wearing: her spectacles. Throughout her career Samantha, now 51, battled severe long-sightedness, relying on high-strength contact lenses and glasses to see. I had four different pairs of glasses,’ she remembers as we chat over champagne at her agent’s North London apartment. I’d have one pair of glasses for looking; one for reading and then two pair of prescription sunglasses. It was ridiculous. My eyes got worse over the years. I’ve got about 50 pairs.’But now, having just undergone a pioneering lens exchange operation replacing her natural lenses with sophisticated trifocal implants – Samantha couldn’t be happier.She struggled with her eyesight since childhood and by the age of 15 was wearing glasses full-time. Then, at 16, she became the youngest-ever Page Three girl. Her buxom body (all natural she insists) was plastered over newspapers, billboards, television and even Playboy magazine before she retired from modelling after just four years to launch a music career. Glasses were not part of the image and she’d never got on with contact lenses..
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But she was forced to rely on them when, just before her 21st birthday, she was thrust on to the global music stage following the release of her chart- topping debut single, Touch Me (I Want Your Body). Between 1986 and 1991 she scored a handful of top-30 singles and sold more than 30 million albums. At 51, she is beautiful but more motherly, and wickedly funny with raspy chuckles..
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