A Japanese pin-up model declared that her big breasts have not only boosted her career but they also helped her overturn a court verdict. The bikini model, Serena Kozakura, was cleared after a court decided she was too well-endowed to squeeze into a room through a hole, which she had been found guilty of earlier.

“I used to hate my body so much,” she told the private Asahi network in an interview aired Tuesday. “But it was my breasts” that won the case.

The case was widely reported in the Japanese media on Tuesday, and the Asahi network invited her to demonstrate how she could not fit through the opening. Kozakura, 38, was convicted last year of property destruction after a man accused her of kicking in the wooden door of his room. Kozakura claimed the man made the hole himself.

During the course of the appeal, the defence counsel demonstrated to the court the hole that was found and said that she could not squeeze through with her 110-centimetre (44-inch) breasts. The Tokyo High Court judge Kunio Harada deciding the case agreed and threw out the guilty verdict on Monday, saying there was reasonable doubt over the man’s account.