Aspiring model Tiffany Glenton has given up a life in the Navy to become a military pin-up.

The glamorous 18-year-old got so sea-sick she decided to return to land and come back to Bradford. And now she is a calendar girl.

Tiffany, of Holme Wood, was searching online for a modelling job when she read about a calendar being put together for the Help The Heroes and Combat Stress charities.

She applied and was one of 12 lucky girls chosen out of hundreds of hopefuls.

The teenager, who has not been paid for posing, said she did the photo-shoot to “put a smile on a few faces” – especially her soldier fiancee Johnny Kirk, who is serving in Afghanistan until February.

She said: “I’ve asked to be Miss February because that’s when he’s due to come back for two weeks’ leave. I can’t wait to see his face when he sees it.”

But despite her excitement about starring in the calendar, there is sadness too – her cousin Marc Birch was one of three Royal Marines killed by a suspected suicide bomber in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, last December.

Reports from the time suggested a 13-year-old boy had approached the Marines pushing a wheelbarrow hiding a bomb under papers.

Cpl Birch, 26, of Northampton, was serving with 45 Commando Royal Marines, and had only just got married.

Tiffany said: “We weren’t that close but it’s family and we were all affected by his death. It was painful for everyone. I wore my uniform to his funeral and saluted his coffin as it went past.”

The former Tong School pupil signed up to be a Wren in the Royal Navy when she was 15. But she missed out on sailing to the Persian Gulf when she fractured her wrist two days after her passing-out ceremony.

“It put things back for me,” she said. “I only got to cruise round Portsmouth, Falmouth and Plymouth but ship life wasn’t for me – I kept getting seasick.”

The calendars will go on sale soon for £7.99. They are being made by Devon-based Wickedelic Lingerie and will be available at wickedeliclingerie. co.uk.

Tiffany said: “I hope lots of people will buy the calendars to show their support for our boys and girls on the front line. They are all heroes.”