A 23-year-old student shed seven stone after she was bullied at school for being obese.

Angelina Denk, from Eitorf, Germany, became a model after she lost seven stone, after weighing more than18st.

One of the worst bullying experiences she had involved a boy stabbing her in the stomach with a pencil, telling her it couldn’t hurt because of her size.

She was bullied between the ages of 12 and 18, Media Drum World reports, and now credits the schoolmates who bullied her for shaping her identity.

Her weight loss mission was prompted by a family holiday when a relative made a nasty remark about her “big thighs.”

Denk previously tried her hand at fad diets in a bid to lose the weight, however, despite shedding some pounds, she admitted that the restrictive mindset this created only made her feel worse about herself in the long term.

She reached her heaviest weight in 2015, at 18st 13lbs.

Through a healthy, balanced diet and a high intensity CrossFit-centric exercise regime, Denk was eventually able to lose seven stone.

She now skips breakfast, eating just two meals a day: one between 4pm and 5pm and another around 9pm.

How Denk has the willpower to survive those mid-morning snack attacks after a gruelling workout is beyond us.

Since losing the weight, Denk has appeared on Curvy Supermodels, a competitive German TV show which follows a similar format to America’s Next Top Model but exclusively for plus size models.

Denk, who describes herself as an influencer on her Instagram bio, reached the top 30 in the competition.

"I'm really blessed and thankful to my body for everything!" she wrote in an Instagram post.