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In early [[1983]], Carole Fox took some topless photographs of her sixteen-year-old daughter and entered them in ''[[The People|The Sunday People]]'' newspaper's "Face and Shape of '83" contest. Although Fox did not win, the newspaper published her pictures and the publicity earned the teenager a modelling contract. She made her first [[Page Three girl|Page Three]] appearance in ''[[The Sun]]'' newspaper on Tuesday, [[February 22]], [[1983]], less than two months before her seventeenth birthday. (In the [[United Kingdom]] at that time, young women could pose topless legally when they turned sixteen; many Page Three girls began their modelling careers at this age.)

Fox's bubbly-blonde looks, winning smile, working-class background, and curvaceous 36D breasts --, which looked disproportionately large on her diminutive 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m) frame --, quickly made her an iconic figure. She appeared on Page Three for three years, winning ''The Sun'''s "Page Three Girl of the Year" award each year. She famously insured her breasts in 1983 for a quarter million [[pounds sterling]], and her popularity helped usher in the [[1980s]] taste for top-heavy Page Three girls; busty models such as the 36DD [[Tracy Neve]] and the 38DD [[Maria Whittaker]] achieved considerable success in the wake of Fox's celebrity. Fox also appeared in [[List of men's magazines|soft-porn magazines]] such as ''Mayfair'', although very few full-frontal nude shots were ever published.

Fox announced her retirement from Page Three modelling in [[1986]], at the age of twenty. In [[1991]], aged twenty-five, she made a one-off appearance in ''The Sun'' to promote Page Three's 25th anniversary week. After overwhelmingly positive reader response, she appeared in the slot every day during the anniversary week, with Monday's picture given away as an [[A3]]-sized poster. In [[1996]], aged thirty, she appeared in the UK edition of ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine.