OUTLANDER star Caitriona Balfe has said she had “really tough” experiences working in the modelling industry.

Balfe told the Thanks A Million With Angela Scanlon podcast that models are “constantly being compared” to others working in the industry.

The Irish actress, who previously worked as a model, said that while modelling can be an “incredible education” that “opens so many doors”, it also “stunts you in so many other ways”.

Balfe continued: “You’re supposed to automatically be this fun, interesting, edgy person that fashion people want to be around. But then at the same time you have to be so skinny and androgynous.

“I think, as a young woman in your teens and twenties, it’s hard enough. There’s so many times where you would go into castings or even fittings for jobs that you already supposedly had and somebody in the room would just be annihilating how you look, or your lack of personality, or you talk too much. All in front of you. It’s really tough.”