Career
Born in west London, Imrie was raised in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland from the age of three. After leaving school at the age of 16, she worked in various blue-collar jobs in the Edinburgh area. Aged 18, she married a local man from Haddington, East Lothian but the marriage soon dissolved.
Imrie then moved to London and began a glamour modelling career. She started appearing as a Page Three girl in The Sun in November 1988, shortly after her 21st birthday, and continued to appear regularly on Page Three until August 1993. She also posed nude for a wide range of men's magazines, including the US edition of Penthouse, which featured her as its cover girl and Penthouse Pet for December 1989 (modelling under the pseudonym Kirsten Stewart). She continued to pose for glamour photographs through her late thirties, appearing in the April 2007 edition of Mayfair magazine at the age of 39.
Imrie also worked as a television presenter. In 1995, she appeared on the newly launched adult television channel Television X. In 1996, L!VE TV recruited Imrie as a television sports presenter. She replaced another former Page Three girl, Gail McKenna, who had moved to the channel Five.
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