SLIMMERS are showing off their new look for an advertising campaign.

The women are all founder members of the Slimfit club, which is being relaunched as Changes.

To mark the new name, Mandy Drake, Lynne Simmons, June MacFarlane and Julie Woodcock have taken off their clothes and posed for an advertisement to be put on buses in the region.

They will be seen under the banner "We Used To Be As Big As The Back Of This Bus".

The four women hold classes throughout the North-East including Darlington, Sunderland, Newton Aycliffe, Durham, Bishop Auckland and Spennymoor.

Between them they lost 14 stones with another slimming club before deciding to set up on their own.

Ms Drake said: "We all know what it's like to lose weight and we hope that these posters will show just that and let people see how we used to be.