SUPERMODEL Jodie Kidd has revealed how her Sussex pub “saved her sanity”.

The polo player and pub owner started working as a model when she was 15 years old after she was scouted on a beach in Barbados.

But despite a fledgling career that saw her walking the catwalk for Fendi and fronting numerous Vogue covers, Kidd chose to walk away due to crippling anxiety.

“I used to think I was having a heart attack,” the 41-year-old told The Daily Mail.

“My heart would race.

“ I’d go all clammy and feel faint.”

Following the on-catwalk panic attack, Kidd moved back to her home town in Sussex where she said she did little else other than riding horses, eating and sleeping.

“I went back to the Sussex countryside where I grew up,” she said.

“I rode my horses, I ate healthily and I slept.”

But in February, she returned to the catwalk after ten years for the VIN + OMI show as part of London Fashion Week.

Despite fronting fashion campaigns since, including her latest for Boden, Kidd remains mostly out of the limelight by living in West Sussex where she works as the landlady of her village gastropub, the Half Moon in Kirdford.

“The Half Moon has been my therapy,” Kidd said of the role.

“It’s changed my whole demeanour.”