BRITAIN'S youngest lotto winner claims she is happier as a working mum after blowing her £2m jackpot. Callie Rogers was just 16 when she scooped the National Lottery prize - splashing the cash on three boob jobs, clothes, parties and extravagant gifts to friends and family. 5 Callie Rogers said she was happier as a working mum Credit: Rex Features The mum-of-three said she now believed the age limit for playing the lottery - which is 16 - should be raised. Speaking on This Morning, she said many people tried to take advantage of her, saying: "At the time you don't realise because you want everybody to like you. "It just became too much to cope with, not knowing who liked me for me anymore and having all the stress of all the money. "I just wanted to go back to having a normal life. I'm 31 now, I still struggle with trust issues." 5 Callie was just 16 when she won the jackpot Credit: PA:Press Association 5 The mum says there should be an age limit for winners of a lotto jackpot Credit: Rex Features At the time of her win, Callie was living with foster parents in Cockermouth, Cumbria. She was working as a Co-op checkout girl, earning just £3.60 an hour. But her life changed overnight with the win, with the teen splashing £18,000 on three boob jobs, £300,000 on clothes and £500,000 on gifts to friends and family. She said: "I wish I was a bit older at the time of winning it because I think at 16 you're still just a child and overnight you've just got to grow up and become an adult, which was really difficult. 5 Callie said her life was turned upside down by the win as a teen Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd 5 Speaking to Lisa Snowdon and Rylan Clark-Neal, Callie said she felt better as a working mum Credit: Rex Features She recalled how she would spend her time in the pub, feeling forced to buy drinks for new “pals” who would sell stories about her. She said she fell into a depression, struggling with the expectations of her new life. Callie said she tried to take her own life when it became "too much to cope with, not knowing who liked me for me anymore and all the stress of having all the money." She added: "I still struggle with trust due to it, but I'm a lot better than I was. I'm starting to be able to trust people again." 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Even if you say your life won’t change, it does and often not for the better.” She added: "The pressure to splash out and live a glam party life has gone – and I prefer it."<doc-sep>The video will auto-play soon 8 Cancel Get email updates with the day's biggest stories Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice The UK's youngest lottery winner has called for age limit to be raised after she revealed how she blew her £1.8m jackpot on drugs, partying and boob jobs. Callie Rogers, 31, admitted she struggled with fame and fortune that the win brought her. She was just 16, the minimum age for the game, when she collected her cheque in 2003. She blew £18,000 on boob jobs, £250,000 on cocaine, another £300,000 on clothes and gave away £500,000 to friends and family. She told ITV's 'This Morning' that she battled depression and tried to take her own life. "I wish I was a bit older at the time of winning it," she said. (Image: REX/Shutterstock) (Image: Press Association) (Image: Sunday Mirror) "At 16 you're just a child, then suddenly overnight you've got to become an adult. "You don't have any understanding of money and the concept of what it brings. There were people who came along who I did not know before and have not been in my life since. "At the time, you just want everybody to like you. The money did bring problems with my family, and friends as well. It just became too much to cope with." She moved of her foster parents' home into a new £180,000 house. Now a mum-of-three in a happy relationship, she said: "Not knowing who liked me for me, and having all the stress of all the money, I just wanted to go back to having a normal life. I still struggle with trust issues." (Image: Press Association) (Image: Press Association) (Image: Sunday Mirror) Before hitting the jackpot she was earning £3.60 an hour as a Co-op checkout girl in Cockermouth, Cumbria. Within weeks she met Nicky Lawson, father of her eldest two children, and had moved out to be with him. She quit work and splashed out on designer clothes, lavish presents for her biological parents and holidays, spending quarter of a million pounds on cocaine. "So-called mates would come over until the early hours to party," she recalled in 2013. "Suddenly, I was a local celeb and people would come up to me in pubs and I felt pressure to buy them all drinks. For so long, I drifted with no aims." (Image: REX/Shutterstock) (Image: Sunday Mirror) She moved to Workington, Cumbria with her fireman partner Paul Penny, and son Blake, who has cerebral palsy, settling down with a steady job. Camelot said they gave 'extensive advice and support' to Callie as they take their duty of care 'very seriously'. "She did not take up independent financial and legal advice offered," said a spokeswoman. "However, our winners' team helped her to handle the media interest." Callie's case isn't the only Lotto winner whose life spiralled out of control following a big win. 'Lotto lout' Michael Carroll won £9.7m in November 2002 aged just 19. He proclaimed himself 'King of the Chavs'. In 2006, the BBC reported that he was almost broke, having spent his fortune on new homes, drugs, parties, jewellery and cars. "I only started to think about three things - drugs, sex and gold," Carroll previously admitted. "The dealer who introduced me to crack has more of my lotto money than I do." In 2010 he applied for his old job as a binman but said he had no regrets how he splashed his winnings. Jane Park, Britain's youngest lottery winner at the time, threatened to sue EuroMillions claiming the win ruined her life. Jane was just 17 when she bagged £1million in prize money after buying her first ever ticket. Speaking to the Sunday People , she said: “I have material things but apart from that my life is empty. What is my purpose in life?” "I thought it would make [my life] ten times better but it’s made it ten times worse." Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will auto-play soon 8 Cancel Play now She was once snapped shopping for a Mercedes, despite facing a possible drink-driving ban. She treated herself to a £25,000 BMW, a £17,000 VW Beetle and a £18,000 Range Rover customised in purple in honour of her football heroes Hibernian. She splashed out £4,500 on a boob job, lip fillers and Botox. Anyone over the age of 16 can play the National Lottery. But the age limit was agreed at the launch of the game in 1994, and not set by Camelot. It will be reviewed as part of the next licence competition process.<doc-sep>
Winning the lottery at the age of 16 was never going to end well. Loading… Britain's youngest ever lottery winner, Callie Rogers, managed to fritter away the almost £2m that she won at the age of 16 back in 2003 but, speaking today on This Morning, she says that she is happier now than she was then. Callie won £1.87m and spent it exactly the way that you might imagine a 16-year-old would: there was £300,000 on clothes, £18,000 on new boobs and a full half a million that she simply gave away to her mates and family. Advert 10 Callie has also said she spent £250,000 on cocaine during their relationship, reports MailOnline. "I wish I was a bit older at the time of winning it," she told stand-in hosts Rylan Clark and Lisa Snowden. "At 16 you're just a child, and then suddenly overnight you've got to become an adult." Callie was working on the checkouts in the local Co-Op in Cockermouth, Cumbria, when she won her money. Advert 10 The cash earned her plenty new friends, but she now realises that they didn't necessarily have her best interests at heart. Credit: PA "There were people who came along after I won the lottery who weren't in my life before, and aren't in my life now," she told This Morning. "At the time you don't realise because you want everybody to like you. It just became too much to cope with, not knowing who liked me for me anymore and having all the stress of all the money." Advert 10 She struggled with depression and tried to take her own life, but has since rebounded and says that she is now doing better than ever. "I just wanted to go back to having a normal life," she continued. "I'm 31 now, I still struggle with trust issues. "I still struggle with trust due to it, but I'm a lot better than I was. I'm starting to be able to trust people again." After her win, she began a life of luxury and partying. She bought a bungalow that cost £180,000 and claims to have spent a full quarter of a million on cocaine, as well as expensive holidays and designer clothes. Advert 10 "I got up late and lived on takeaways," she said in 2013. "And so-called mates would come over until the early hours to party. "Suddenly, I was a local celeb and people would come up to me in pubs as if they were my best friend and I felt pressure to buy them all drinks. I didn't know who to trust." "For so long, I drifted with no aims. Now I have a job and my family to care for." Credit: ITV/This Morning Advert 10 Callie had two kids and subsequently retrained as a nurse. She lives on the straight and narrow now with her partner Paul, a fireman, and her child Blake, who suffers from cerebal palsy. "It was too much money for someone so young," she conclused. "Even if you say your life won't change, it does - and often not for the better. It nearly broke me, but thankfully, I'm now stronger."