Hollyoaks beauty unrecognisable with huge snake tattoo 12 years after sexy calendar shoot

HOLLYOAKS quality Melissa Walton is unrecognisable with a immense snake tattoo 12 years aft her sexy calendar shoot.

Despite her astonishment overhaul, Melissa, 34, looks ever-gorgeous successful posts shared to her 176k followers connected Instagram.

Following her monolithic occurrence successful the Channel 4 soap, she's surviving a quieter, much backstage beingness these days arsenic a pistillate enactment manager and emotion mentor.

The erstwhile histrion joined Ryan Wells, a Royal Navy Air Force pilot, successful 2012 and they stock a young lad together, with a babe miss connected the way.

In her latest video connected the platform, Melissa is seen beaming with joyousness aft utilizing a pink-dyed barroom for a sex reveal.

And, successful another, she's seen cosying up to her spouse successful their caller location of Austin, Texas.

Melissa besides revealed the crushed for her stunning inking, saying it represents "transformation and reclaiming feminine power".

The serpent, she explained, reflects her travel done healing and idiosyncratic growth, overmuch similar the snake shedding its tegument to "embrace the new".

The Coventry-native trained astatine Bablake School and Stratford-upon-Avon College and had her archetypal brushwood with fame appearing alongside Julie Walters successful Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story.

She joined Hollyoaks Later successful 2008, impressing fans with her dedication, adjacent taking pole-dancing lessons for her character, Loretta Jones.

After impressing producers with her performance, 18-year-old Melissa was promoted to the main amusement successful 2009.

Loretta’s acheronian backstory, involving her being a erstwhile kid killer, stirred controversy, and Walton exited the soap successful 2010.

During her clip connected the show, she posed for the Hollyoaks Babes calendar and immoderate different underwear shoots.

Beyond her breakout role, she's besides appeared successful Doctors and Coronation Street.

The fledgling histrion archetypal began struggling with an eating upset astatine the property of 17 and antecedently told the Express she "immediately started comparing myself to the different girls" astatine her performing arts assemblage successful Stratford-upon-Avon.

But her soap relation lone exacerbated her disordered eating and Melissa became "obsessed with however I looked connected TV" and would "agonise astir my figure."

Since leaving the show, Melissa has campaigned to rise consciousness for eating disorders and has trained arsenic a wellness and eating psychology coach.

In 2016, she wrote her archetypal publication The Goddess Revolution to assistance different eating upset sufferers utilizing her idiosyncratic experience.