FORMER Herts and Essex High School students and Body Gossip campaigners Natasha Devon and Ruth Rogers have teamed up with image guru Gok Wan once more.
The friends, who met at the Stortford secondary aged 11, will appear in the first programme of the How To Look Good Naked presenter’s three-part Channel 4 documentary series Gok’s Teens: The Naked Truth, which will be screened at 8pm tomorrow (February 7).
Ruth, who is a West End actor and director and currently part of the directorial team for the show War Horse, and Natasha, a former model and musician turned writer, have each experienced the negative aspects of society's obsession with body image.
Ruth, who is 5ft 10ins and a naturally slender size 10, was told she would have to lose weight in order to become a successful actress, in the early stages of her career, while curvy Natasha battled an eight-year eating disorder in her late teens and early 20s.
The organisation, Body Gossip, invites everyone in the UK to write something about their body and post it on the website.
A selection of these stories are then turned into live theatre performances and short films starring a celebrity cast including Takeley actress Zaraah Abrahams, Natalie Cassidy, Louisa Lytton and Nikki Grahame.
The testimonies are also set to be published in the forthcoming Body Gossip book. Nathasha and Ruth’s work also includes Gossip School – a self-esteem class aimed at 14 to 18-year-olds of both genders, which has been taken to schools and colleges throughout the UK including Bishop’s Stortford.
Last year the pair helped Gok Wan address MPs about the issue of body image.
