The Scottish model whose career took off at 60
Media playback is unsupported on your deviceGillean McLeod only had her first professional photos taken when she was in her early 50s and her career as a model did not take off until a swimsuit shoot at the age of 60.
When the clothes retailer posted the image on Instagram it quickly went viral, attracting hundreds of thousands of likes.Since then Gillean's modelling career has taken off, with her heading campaigns for brands such as Boots the chemist, Levi's jeans and Schwarzkopf hair products. "Then we got to go out on the boats to islands and stuff. It was paradise. We lived surrounded by beauty and lots of friends and no parents."
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