Zara McDermott has told how she faced abuse from strangers in the street after becoming the victim of revenge porn aged 14.

The former Love Island contestant, who is fronting a BBC documentary about the issue, said life became “unbearable” and she considered taking her own life.

McDermott said she took the nude photograph as a means of fitting in at school, where she was being bullied at the time.

She later faced another image being circulated in 2018 while she appeared as a contestant on the ITV reality show Love Island.

McDermott, from Essex, told The Sun: “It’s been 10 years of pain. It still affects me to this day and I don’t think it will ever go away.

"I was so scarred from that experience.”

She said she was called “disgusting” and more by people in the street.

McDermott added: “There were a few occasions when I seriously considered ending everything and I looked into ways I could do it.

“My life was unbearable. The idea of not living any more was better than having to deal with the pain I was going through every day.

“But something stopped me — something told me, ‘This will get better’.”

Zara McDermott: Revenge Porn will air on BBC 3 next week.

It will also be shown on BBC One in march.

She added: ""I feel passionate about helping other people in the situation I was in, so I’ll be sharing my story in detail for the first time.

"Confronting issues head-on is the only way we can make change and I am putting my heart into this documentary in the hope that it will make people think twice about revenge porn."