Model Jada Sezer says she hopes to inspire “normal people” to take part in a sporting challenge as she prepares to swim two miles for charity.
The 30-year-old plus-size model and body positivity campaigner, who ran the London Marathon in 2018 in her underwear with journalist Bryony Gordon, is tomorrow taking part in the Children With Cancer Swim Serpentine.
Speaking to the Standard, the model said she hoped her involvement would help others to take on a similar feat - as she is just a “normal person.”
The model said: “I don’t mind putting myself out there like this to inspire people. I am a normal person. If people see me doing things like the marathon or this and think - ok maybe I can do it.
"You can achieve it. I am nervous and excited and sometimes I think I am not going to make it. But I know I will. And they can too.”
Sezer admitted she was “daunted” ahead of tomorrow’s challenge as she hadn’t “been in the water properly” for nine years when she signed up earlier this year.
She said: “I was a swimmer when I was younger, but nothing really since then. I had been for a dip in a pool on holiday but not proper swimming.
“It is a bit daunting, to be trying something new. When I did a training swim in Ullswater, that was when it hit me what I had signed up for. Two miles is a long way to swim, so I had a little melt down. But when I did the marathon I also had a freak out. So I think it will be fine.”
As many as 6,000 people are expected to take part in the Swim Serpentine tomorrow - with participants taking part in either the half, one or two mile distances.
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Swim Serpentine has a new charity partner in 2019, Children with Cancer UK, the charity which Diana, Princess of Wales, inaugurated in 1988.
To register interest to swim the 2020 Children with Cancer Swim Serpentine click here.
