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HER naked belly drew almost as many gasps from viewers as her famous struggles with the English language.
And four years after flaunting it in a Big Brother drinking game on live TV, Jade Goody is doing something about her ample stomach.
"I'm having a tummy tuck in August because I need to get rid of it," she laughs. "After having kids, no matter how much I exercised I couldn't get rid of my stretch marks and jelly belly. I'm only 24, and I can afford it, so why not?"
She has already had a boob job, but not to get bigger breasts."I was a 38C, but after I had children they went all flimsy," she says. "They had to put a big implant in - 38DD/E - because I had loads of skin. But I don't like it when you hang out of your bikini, so I might have a reduction."
With the latest series of Big Brother in full swing, the new housemates will be hoping it will lead to a million-pound fortune, as it did for Jade. So does she have any advice for them?
"They all know what to expect," she says. "They don't just chuck you in there like a bunch of monkeys as an experiment. You see psychiatrists and they explain you could end up one of the most hated people in the UK or one of the most loved.
"I didn't look great in Big Brother. But I hate it when people say it's edited to make you look bad. They can't make you look bad unless you do, or make you look like a slag unless you're acting like one.
"I'd never say they edited it to make me look thick. I am silly and that's how I came across!"
Jade knows she irritated the other housemates on BB3 and believes it was down to her upbringing. From the age of five she helped to look after her pot-smoking mum Jackiey, 47, after she lost the use of her left arm in a motorbike accident.
"I never had a childhood, really," she says. "I never had that chance to be an idiot kid. So when I was in the Big Brother house I thought: 'I don't...