Amanda jane forbes biography sample

FORMER glamour girl Amanda Forbes hit rock bottom - when she was sacked from a job shovelling muck on a farm.

The unemployed topless model, who once earned Pounds a day, joined Labour's New Deal work scheme, hoping to learn computer skills.

Instead, she got Pounds 15 a week for muck-moving and other manual labour on an inner-city farm.

And she found herself the butt of sex and race harassment from other workers.

The year-old claims the ordeal wrecked her confidence, ruined her health and destroyed any chance she had of returning to modelling.

But an industrial tribunal in Leicester threw out her bid to win Pounds , compensation, including Pounds , for lost modelling fees.

Last night, a furious Amanda, who has vowed to fight on, said: "The work I did and the way I was treated was 13 weeks of hell and torture and I can't model now. I'm not the bright- eyed and bushy-tailed person I was.

"My confidence has been shattered and I'm in physical pain because of what I was put through."

Amanda signed up last year with the aim of learning new skills with Leicester- based Pelcombe Training.

She said: "They offered me a job working for six months on a cruise ship but when I had to turn it down because I get seasick they sent me to a farm.

"I thought I might get some fresh air but it was crazy. I was a former topless model shovelling dirt and I came in for a hard time. I was the only woman with a dozen men and I became the butt of every joke.

"One supervisor got some of the blokes to take photographs of me bending over in dirty overalls. Then, to hoots of laughter, a supervisor told them to landscape an area around the pig pens in the shape of a curvy woman."

Amanda claims she tore muscles in her chest while lifting heavy concrete slabs.

She told the tribunal: "People adored me for 12 years. Now I've been denied the chance to go back to modelling because of my ordeal.

"I was taunted with racist chants and songs.

"I found the whole thing outrageous and disgusting. I have got a bad chest due to Pelcombe Training."

But the tribunal refused to hear Amanda's claim.

Lawyers for the firm argued she was never in their employ because she was still receiving State benefits - and that she had not worked long enough to bring an unfair dismissal claim.