Shape I’m in: Sarah Morrissey

FORMER Miss Ireland Sarah Morrissey might not have become a model if her mum hadn’t sent a photo of her to Assets Models Agency.

She did it following a chance comment from a photographer who was looking at family photos. “He said ‘I know that girl — she’s a model’. My mum said ‘I don’t think so – she’s my daughter’.”

Within two days of Assets receiving the photo, Sarah did a casting for a John Rocha show and got it. “If I’d had time to think about it, I’d have talked myself out of it! Growing up, because I was tall, people would say ‘you should be a model’. I didn’t think about it — nobody in my area was a model.”