London, Apr 27 : English model Sophie Dahl has blasted "stick-thin starlets" for inspiring others to diet.

Dahl, 31, who is very curvaceous, and had been a size 14 when she began modelling aged 19, warned people not to follow the "paranoid and unhappy" stars.

"Starving is not sexy," the Sun quoted her as saying.

"It is bleeding gums, acrid breath, brittle bones, osteoporosis, infertility and complication. It saps and withers.

"Please don''t be swayed by some glossy fictional food diary that a stick-thin starlet swears by," she said.

Dahl, who is engaged to jazz singer Jamie Cullum, further revealed that she never thought of being a model until a chance meeting at Vogue fashion magazine.

"I had enormous t*ts and even bigger a***," she added. (ANI)