How to create Sprite programmatically

Hi, I need to programmatically create a Texture2D from an image file and to then create a Sprite from it. I then need to assign this sprite to the Image component.

The following code does exactly that but the problem is that the Image only shows the bottom left 25% of the original texture and not all of it. For example if I create the sprite in the editor and then assign to the Image component, it displays properly showing the whole texture. this is not the case if I do it programmatically using the following code:

 byte[] fileData = File.ReadAllBytes(userImagePath);
 Texture2D texture2D = new Texture2D(2, 2);
 texture2D.LoadImage(fileData); //..this will auto-resize the texture dimensions.
             
 Sprite sp = Sprite.Create(texture2D,new Rect(0,0,texture2D.width,texture2D.height),new Vector2(1.0f,1.0f));
 
 Image.sprite =sp;