Corrie favourite Samia Longchambon has treated fans to a glimpse of her first magazine cover shoot.
The Eccles soap star, who plays Maria Connor in Coronation Street, shared her modelling shoot for Machine Knitting News children’s collection from 1992.
The photos were kept by her mum Patsy to show her kids and Samia, 38, thought her followers on Instagram would also want to see.
"Anyone need a knitting pattern for some nice yellow woolly shorts? No?" she asked.
"This was my first magazine cover for Machine Knitting News children’s collection 1992.
"Special thanks to my mum for keeping all these little gems for me to show my kids."
Followers couldn't help noticing that early 90s Samia is the spitting image of her 10-year-old daughter Freya.
"Its Freya with brown hair," commented her co-star Jane Danson who plays Leanne Battersby.
"Oh my gosh, Freya with dark hair!! love it," said another follower.
"It’s sooo Freya!!" exclaimed another.
And another told her: "Omg, this is so like Freya, I can't believe it!!!"
"Haha! next stop Vogue," joked Samia who was the same age as Freya when she posed for the photos.
Samia, who also has a four-year-old son Yves, first appeared as an extra in Coronation Street as a child and she was 11-years-old when she appeared in an episode of the Manchester-based crime drama Cracker.
She also appeared in Children's Ward, Heartbeat and Doctors.
She arrived in Weatherfield in 2000 as former kennel maid Maria.
In the soap Maria recently married soap villain Gary Windass, who days earlier confessed to murdering his loan shark boss Rick Neelan and still carrying a torch for his ex Sarah Barlow, but his new bride is unaware of these dark secrets.
