The Real Undercover Story by June Kenton of Rigby & Peller

We bring you the definitive advice on how to look instantly slimmer and more streamlined. The undisputed star turn of the first and second series of How to Look Good Naked, June Kenton (pictured) of Rigby & Peller, the Queen’s corsetiere and the UK’s most prestigious and glamorous lingerie chain, tells SoSensational how to maximise assets, minimise bumps and bulges and how to ensure underpinnings always work for you.

"We all change bra size throughout our lives – pregnancy, breast-feeding, the Pill, HRT, weight-gain or weight-loss. So it is important to be fitted for a bra, and to recognise that a bra size and cup-size can alter over the years. Because you were a 34B when you were 40, doesn’t mean you still are.

"It is very difficult to measure yourself. You are moving to adjust the tape measure, you are not relaxed, and even if the tape measure tells you that you are 36ins round your torso, and a C cup, that still won’t necessarily mean you will buy a bra that really fits well, because you may be 36C in one brand, but another size in another brand.  And if someone fits you, they can see what is going on at the back as well as at the front.  And a bra that gives you proper support is better for your health.  A bra that doesn’t give you the right support and lets you bounce around will be bad for your back, bad for your neck, and bad for your confidence.

“In the right underwear, you avoid six bosoms – two real ones, two at the back and two above the cups. You only need two. And if it is the wrong cut or the wrong size, your bosoms will be too close together – not a nice sight. They’re not lonely, they don’t need to talk to each other!”

“If you do have bumps and bulges, wear a ‘body’ – it holds everything in and gives a really sleek line”

JUNES RULES

Always wear matching bra and briefs. It will make you feel better to know your underwear looks good

Have different bras for different types of clothing: you need a smooth or T-shirt bra to wear under close-fitting clothes; a bra with pretty straps for strappy tops; a flesh coloured bra – never white, cream or black – to wear under anything see-through

Never pull your bra straps up so high your breasts creep out at the bottom; the underwiring should rest against the chest wall, not against your breast.

An underwired bra won’t give you breast cancer (you would be amazed how many people believe that old rubbish!)

A bra should fit comfortably around your torso – not so tight it gives you extra boobs, but not so loose it rides up

Forget what it says on the label – if you need to go up a cup size for a better fit, do so. You are the only one who has to know what the label says, and the right cup size will be so much more flattering

If you wear any kind of control underwear, don’t buy it too small. Leave the fat where you have grown it – don’t push it somewhere else!