I see pop stars, movie stars every day. I see what are deemed to be some of the 'sexiest' people on the planet. I can't help but find that sometimes I try and compare myself to them.

When I was younger, I did worry about body image. I worried about spots, I seemed to get loads of spots, it was all the sort of classic stuff really. I'd wear a hat everywhere, I hated my hair. If someone nicked my hat, I'd get really stressed about it. I wish I was a bit taller, but what was the hat about? I was wearing a hat the whole time!

You can't avoid the pressure that you feel to look a certain way. You can't because it's everywhere, you it see online, you see it in magazines, you've got your mates all progressing at different stages of their life, some of them have boyfriends or girlfriends, everyone, I mean everyone is different but in a weird kind of way, everyone's just trying to be the same to get by and keep pace with everyone else. I stopped wearing football shirts to school discos and suddenly decided that I needed to wear a shirt and do something with my hair and I discovered deodorant. I'll be honest with you, that's what I thought would get me a girlfriend. I was wearing the same shirt that every other guy that I knew was wearing. Nothing made me really stand out. As I've got slightly older, I've realised that that little bit that makes you stand out is the bit that someone is looking for. If everyone looked the same, this whole game wouldn't work, would it?

It doesn't matter how good looking you are, you want to change something about yourself, there's an imperfection that everyone finds in themselves. You know, I'd be much happier if I could roll out on the beach and my skin was even slightly tanned 'cause I don't get a tan. My hair's a bit crap and I've got a bit of a belly and, you know, like, I feel a bit weird when I step out on a beach because I look around at everyone and think, ‘God, a lot of good looking guys here.’ I think that there are quite a lot of pressures that men put on themselves and an assumption that if you have a six pack and you can hit the gym every day that, that's going to somehow stand you better and actually it's, I'm not just saying it 'cause I'm not that guy, but it's just not true. Don't get me wrong, like every now and then I want to go and do a bit of fitness and lose a bit of weight. I want to be more powerful playing football but don't confuse the two things because fitness is only good really if it's making you feel better, it shouldn't be making you feel worse. Just accept that you're not going to look a certain way or, you know, I can't physically make myself any taller. You just have to, at some point, get on with your life and realise that you've got to play to your strengths.

Your mates are not your mates because of how you look. The right partner in your life will not come to you based purely on how you look. I could go get a nice hair cut, go buy some slightly better clothes, it doesn't really change what I'm about. The second that you just start enjoying who you are, what you're about, you can get on with life, give out a bit of a positive energy about yourself and people will want to be part of that, but, honestly, I've just accepted I am Chris Stark from Watford, got bit of a belly and that's okay, that, this is what everyone's got to realise, it is okay to just be you and just live that to the fullest and that's ultimately what I think people will buy into.