When Prince's Twinz were a lot tinier

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When they strutted down the red carpet with Prince, the two girls known only as The Twinz were the epitome of cool.

But, as the picture below shows there was a time when the sisters had a much more innocent outlook.

The stunning identical twins are 26-year-olds Maya and Nandy McClean, and their pursuit of a life in showbusiness has left their family back in Australia a little concerned.

They were the talking point of London's premiere of The Bourne Ultimatum last week when they accompanied Prince to the Leicester Square opening.

But the glamour of the occasion was a long way from their childhood home of Byron Bay, a small town in rural New South Wales popular with surfers, tourists and hippies.

The early years of the McClean sisters - daughters of a hard-drinking session musician from Trinidad, Bruce McClean, and Mo Hughes, a drugs charity campaigner - were unsettled. The family didn't have much money and would often move around.

As a result, Maya and Nandy immersed themselves in music, earning their break on a cruise ship in 2003.

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Perfect pairing: Maya and Nancy with Prince at the O2

But their half-brother, Stewart Hughes, 42, revealed last night that although the family had faith in the girls' "moral strength", their mother had been "worried about what they might be exposed to" in their new showbiz world.