SWINDON’S first-ever Page Three model is back inside the first turn of a daily newspaper today – and she’s using it to get something off her chest once again.

Jayne Evans, 53, now works as a self-employed podiatrist in the town but waded into the national Page Three debate yesterday.

More than 30 years ago, Jayne shot to fame as the town’s first topless model in The Sun, when she was just 17.

A short modelling career followed, with various shoots for daily tabloid titles, glamour magazines, promotions and underwear advertisements.

Jayne signed off that chapter of her life at 24, two years after the birth of her first daughter, but remains a strong supporter of Britain’s most famous newspaper page, due to the effect it had on her life.

Earlier this month, the red top created its own headlines after bringing topless models back following a short hiatus, which had been seen as a final end to the feature by campaigners. But Mrs Evans backed the paper.

“It does get me a little bit cross. What is all the fuss about? Have these people, these upset women, got nothing better to do?” she said. “It’s just a fuss about nothing. More importantly, it does take the choice away from women. I’m all for equality and this is taking some of that away from women.

“In the bigger picture women are women and men are men. They are two different things and there’s nothing wrong in being a woman.

“They get on this bandwagon and blow it out of proportion. It certainly hasn’t done me any harm. I have never regretted doing it. It was a long time ago and it was probably a little more risqué back then, because you can see boobs everywhere now.”

The Sun’s topless images have long drawn protests from campaigners, with an online petition against their use attracting more than 215,000 signatures so far.

Campaign group No More Page Three was founded in 2012 and has since gained support from a number of MPs and anti-sexism charities.

The Irish edition of the Sun stopped publishing topless pictures two years ago.

It is a debate which has always been close to Jayne’s heart, who got her big break after a holiday snap was sent into The Sun, unbeknown to her, by a former colleague.

“For many years after, it was something I didn’t tell people about immediately. Not because I was ashamed, but people’s reactions weren’t kind,” she said.

“If people knew about it they saw me as someone to look out for if I was near their husbands, which couldn’t be further from the truth."