Model Lisa Du Preez wanted prominent coverage and a fee - we achieved both by placing her exclusive story with Britain's biggest selling Sunday newspaper, with a follow up in Love It magazine.

 

What you got undie there?

Lingerie model Lisa was once a man called Louis (and her boyfriend didn't know)

SEXY lingerie model Lisa Du Preez today reveals more than ever before - how she used to be a MAN!

With her striking looks, statuesque size ten figure and 34DD boobs, she's perfect for the frilly undie ads.

But ten years ago she was a bloke called Louis in Y-fronts. And the surgical sex-swap transformation is so good that her electrician FIANCÉ didn't know the truth until she rang him and confessed!

Freaks

Brunette Lisa, 35, boasted: "I let people think I was a natural-born woman for a long while and had a great time seeing how many men I could pull and get away with it. "But now I'm ready to let the world know who I really am. I want people to know that transvestites and transsexuals aren't all ugly freaks."

As well as Lisa's online lingerie shop liselou.com , her glam pictures have been used on dating websites, nightclub posters and adverts for contact lenses.

"But actually becoming a woman was hell," she admitted. "On a scale of one to ten, the pain was a ten. I had to go on morphine to cope.

"Obviously I can't have kids, but when people say I don't know what childbirth feels like, I say I DO! It was agony. But now I look like this I have absolutely no regrets."

The long road to womanhood began when Lisa, then Louis, was seven. My sister Belinda got a make-up set for Christmas and I stole the red nail varnish," she said. "I'd put it on and love how it looked. We'd play dressing-up together and I'd end up looking like a girl.

I suppose I knew I was different from a young age. I'd been trapped in the wrong skin since birth. "I'd always been feminine and looked girly. It meant I got bullied badly at school and called faggot.

Sport was a huge problem, some boys refused to get changed in front of me."

But after leaving school a visit to a gay club convinced the teenage Louis he wasn't homosexual.

"It was the first time I saw men kissing each other and I just instantly knew that's not what I was," recalled Lisa.

But it was only after meeting a transvestite that Lisa realised she would never be satisfied as a man.

At 22 she started oestrogen injections and testosterone suppressant then had therapy to prepare for the swap.

And in 1999, after living as a woman full-time for two years, Lisa - from Enfield, Middlesex - had the surgery that finally allowed her to make love as a woman.

"It was amazing," she said. "I did have orgasms as a man but they're better as a woman.

"When I met my fiancé John Ward in a pub a year ago we hit it off right away but I didn't tell him about the surgery. "We dated for a few weeks, kissing and cuddling, and then it got to the stage where I knew I had to tell him. "I took the easy way out and phoned him."

John admitted: "I didn't know what to say at first, But I accept Lisa as she is, we're in love and going to get married."