Corrie's 'Rosie' hopes to be a role model

Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan has revealed that she wants her curvy image to send out a positive message to the soap's fans.

The actress, who plays Rosie Webster on the ITV1 show, admitted that she has been putting the pounds back on after becoming too thin last year.

"Last year I was a size eight, but I think it's so much sexier to be curvy," Flanagan told New! magazine. "I'm also aware that I have to be responsible.

"There are girls watching me on television and I'd hate it for a girl to think I was skinny on TV and that she wanted to look the same."

Flanagan recently said that she is "flattered" by the attention she has received from male Corrie fans over the past few months.