For anyone struggling with body confidence, baring all on television is likely to be one of their worst nightmares.

But Dawn O'Porter has revealed it was getting naked in front of the camera that enabled her to overcome her body dysmorphia and feel 'at peace' with the way she looked.

The television presenter, who's married to Bridesmaids actor Chris O'Dowd, stripped off for her BBC Three documentary Dawn Gets Naked in 2008, and hasn't looked back since.

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Dawn, pictured at the launch of a beauty shop earlier this month, said that stripping off for one of her documentaries allowed her to overcome body dysmorphia

The 2008 documentary Dawn Gets Naked saw her bare all to explore the manipulation of the beauty industry

Exploring how our idea of perfection has been 'perverted' to fit the demands of the beauty industry, the programme saw Dawn propelled into a variety of uncompromising situations - including a naked photoshoot and a trip to a naturist site.

Reflecting on the show, the 37-year-old told Glamour: 'There was nothing to hide any more. It was like taking all the happy pills all at once, it was so liberated to be rid of the dysmorphia that had held me back for so long.

'Now, I like what I see in the mirror: my boobs are okay, I don't have much of a bum, and I'm at peace with the fact that I'll never have a six pack.

'I don't need my body to be perfect, I don't need to be "skinny" and toned to be a writer. I'm slim but cuddly, and I'm down with that!'

The television presenter is married to Bridesmaids actor Chris O'Dowd and the couple have a one-year-old son called Art

Scottish-born Dawn also revealed that she may never have met husband Chris had she not struggled with her career in Hollywood after shooting to fame in the UK with her first documentary Super Slim Me in 2007.

She invited the actor, who was starring in Channel 4 series the IT Crowd at the time, to her 30th birthday party 'to make up numbers'.

Speaking previously, Dawn said: ‘I had a really successful 20s when I made show after show and had a great time.

'Then it just all disappeared. I moved out to LA and my documentary series didn’t get recommissioned and I lost a magazine column I was writing.

'There were about two-and-a-half years when I just didn’t work. You get very self-consumed in that time, you presume it’s all over and you get very frightened.

The couple met in 2007 after Dawn invited Chris, who was starring in Channel 4's IT Crowd at the time, to her 30th birthday party 'to make up numbers'

‘I thank God I met Chris when all that was going on, because if I hadn’t I might have really hit rock bottom,’ she said.

‘We got together just as Chris’s career was taking off, so we experienced it together. Because it was all happening for him, I still got to live this amazing life.’

The couple, who got married in 2012, welcomed their son Art into the world in January last year.

Dawn, who has written five books and made 16 documentaries, has recently been concentrating on her fashion business, while Hollywood favourite Chris has been stepping up his acting schedule.