Yahoo LifestyleIs this Britain’s most GLAMOROUS family? Gran and 25-year-old daughter both award-winning pageant queens
Annemarie Leak and daughter Katarina both share stunning looks, must run in the family
Is this Britain’s most glamorous family?
Annemarie Leak, 54, has won beauty pageants since the age of 12 and was recently named Glamorous Gran UK at a ceremony in Essex.
But it seems her striking looks run in the family as her 25-year-old daughter Katarina is also a finalist for a local beauty contest.
Earlier this month, Annemarie was crowned the country’s most glamorous gran at The Sugar Hut in Essex, made famous by hit TV show The Only Way is Essex.
Annemarie, who lives in Louth, Linconshire, and has two daughters and one granddaughter, won her first beauty contest when she was named Modern Miss in 1971.
She was snapped up to a modelling agency and was used in numerous adverts and magazines – before going on win a youth beauty pageant when she was 16 and winning Miss Bikini East Coast in 1980.
She was crowned Miss Lincolnshire in 1982 and won GMTV's lookalike competition for looking like Sue Ellen from Dallas two years later.
To become the most glamorous gran, Annemarie wore a 1950s inspired dress and performed a nursery rhyme with her granddaughter, four-year-old Myah.
"My daughter noticed the ad for this competition in the summer and encouraged me to enter,” said Annemarie, who looks after Myah full time.
"I always had the philosophy that if you don't enter you don't get. Everybody tells me I look very good for my age. I try to go for the old glamour like Dita Von Teese and I adore the Audrey Hepburn style.
"I think the judges were impressed with my outlook more than anything. I hope I inspire other women my age so they realise they are not too old to be glamorous.
"I'm lucky because I can still eat what I like and do very little exercise."
Instead she has one green smoothie a day which includes spinach, celery, lettuce and lemon juice and enjoys having an number of regular beauty treatments.
"I do have a gym membership but I don't use it, I just look after myself with facials and massages every week,” said Annemarie.
"I also have regular trips to the hairdressers but I go to the hair college so it doesn't cost very much because my daughter is setting up a beauty salon so I get treatments from her as well."
However it seems beauty comes at a cost as the pageant queen revealed she has been celibate for more than 10 years.
Remarkably, despite having looks most women would die for, she has not had sex since 2000 after a string of bad relationships.
Incredibly, divorcee Annemarie, who says she was an "ugly duckling" as a child, is happy to remain single.
"I was married in 1984 but then divorced by 1988 and have been single for most of my adult life,” she said.
"Men are not top of my list but it would be nice to have a man on my arm to take me to these events, I have got so many nice clothes to wear.
"I think it has proved that looking good is not always good. I don't know what it is, maybe men have never known how to approach me.
"There was never much interest in me when I was at school either, I used to think I was the ugly duckling, but maybe the boys are scared of me.
"I don't know what it is about us, neither of my daughters are married either.
"I have found relationships really difficult, I had the occasional boyfriend when I was younger but it only lasted a couple of months at a time.
"I was engaged to another man before I was married but the whole relationship only lasted six months - I just couldn't go through with it.
"I met my husband in 1983 and we had a rocky romance - he just used to get so jealous, he was a pain.”
Despite her disastrous love life, Annemarie says she is happy with her decision to turn her back on men and concentrate on modelling.
“Here I am having a second bite at the cherry and I am not going to let anyone stand in my way.
"My husband, who was seven years older, used to stand in my way with beauty competitions and say they weren't suitable.
"I just wanted a proper family life, that is what I set out for. The relationship put me off men forever and I have been celibate for 13 years now. I think not having that pressure has made me stay looking and feeling young.
"I have a lot of barriers but I just don't think I have ever found the right man, there is a problem with the physical side.
"I find being affectionate very difficult, I can't even hug my own mum.
"But I don't want to be a little old lady with a dog and a cat - I suppose I am looking for someone but they have got to be right.
"I want to find someone who has something in common with me, someone who is outgoing, likes going to see films and the theatre.
"I think my ideal man would be a cross between Jon Bon Jovi and Sean Connery
"I am looking for love but I don't go on dating sites - who knows what the future might hold though."
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