Emmerdale star Lorraine Chase has revealed why she’s never had cosmetic surgery in an exclusive chat with MailOnline, despite saying her face is ‘haggard’ and admitting she ‘feels invisible.’

The former model, 71, who shot to fame in the 1970s as the ‘Luton Airport girl’ in a series of Campari adverts, has spent recent years on reality TV and doing pantomimes.

Speaking to MailOnline at the We Will Rock You press evening, Lorraine also opened up on why she feels the entertainment industry is ‘toxic’.

Lorraine said: ‘I’m not sure I do look so great. I don’t have any secrets I just get on with life. But when I look back I wish I’d drunk more water, because the old boat race is a bit haggard.

‘I haven’t had any surgery, but when everyone around you is doing it you look like the old bugger who hasn’t worn well. It makes you look a certain way, ageing isn’t easy.’

She added: ‘Ive never been married and never had children so I can’t understand why I don’t look exactly the same. Showbiz is quite a toxic industry especially for women, it’s so unforgiving.

‘I feel quite invisible on the red carpet these days, but getting older is the price we all pay for our 5 minutes for fame. It’s just life…’

Lorraine has always openly discussed her health woes over the years.

In 2013 she was diagnosed with a skin carcinoma which had reportedly been growing on her face for four years, according to the Daily Star.

Speaking with the outlet after having the cancerous growth removed, Lorraine declared: ‘I now call myself ‘Scarface’ but really you can hardly see it.

‘There was a big hole where the cancer was cut out but the ophthalmic surgeon who stitched me up did it sympathetically.’

She admitted she was ‘really worried’ about how the operation would affect her ageless looks but joked that it had actually ‘livened up’ the eye it was under.

Lorraine’s husband John Knight sadly passed away in 1996 after losing his battle with cancer.

Sharing her thoughts on his passing in 2013, Lorraine admitted that she has never gotten over his death.

She told Mail Online at the time: ‘I’d watch him go through chemotherapy, which was debilitating. Just when he was starting to feel better again, they’d tell him it was time for the next round of chemo.

‘He never once complained and the only time I saw him cry was when he was told stem cell replacement therapy had failed.’