“I saw the older girls in the centre; they finished secondary school and that was it. They started having babies as teenagers. I was like, ‘Mom, this can’t be life, this can’t be for me’. I’m a performer, I wanted to be on stage, singing. I wanted to be dancing, acting. ‘This can’t be my life, I can’t be here having children when I’m a child’.” @pamela.ashley.uba talks to @liadanhynes about growing up in direct provision, how she put aside her dreams of becoming a singer to study the more dependable medical science, her time as Miss Ireland, and facing her fears in Ultimate Hell Week Read her interview using the link in bio 📸 @alexsheridanphoto Styling @thatsorlatoyou Hair @loxperience