A model attitude

Along with her jet-setting career as an international model, she is a parenting columnist for a slew of glossy magazines, appears regularly on TV, hosts events such as wedding fairs and runs the nationwide 0 To Toddler shows.
“The show is all about early childhood development, understanding our kids. I feel depression in Ireland stems from a lack of expression because we are not taught to express our emotions or feelings,” says Alison, a single parent who has suffered from depression since early adulthood and postnatal depression following the birth of her son James, who is now two-and-a-half-years-old.