Stacey Dineen: 'I want to be known for my music, not as the girl who was bullied'
Stacey Dineen: traded in 200,000 Instagram followers to pursue music
In a world in which image and branding counts for so much, a huge Instagram following would be considered a bonus for anyone launching a music career. For Stacey Dineen, however, her first steps towards forging a future in music were marked by her disabling her Instagram account, and waving goodbye to a follower count of almost 200,000.
In 2017, when she was only 18, Dineen, from Knocklong, Co Limerick, won The Fashion Hero, a Canadian reality TV show championing diversity and difference in fashion. She began to draw a large following on social media, as she became a body-positive activist, sharing her own experiences of being bullied and body-shamed.
