Gráinne Gallanagh: I’ve always struggled with confidence

'I’d like to be remembered as being nice. I think being nice is so underrated.'

Gráinne Gallanagh: "When I was dancing, when I was doing Miss Universe Ireland, I was a bag of nerves inside."

I am the youngest of four girls. There was a lot of fights, drama and stealing each other’s clothes and makeup growing up but we get on very well and we are very close. My mum was a teacher and my daddy is a farmer. I have four nephews and two nieces who I am absolutely obsessed with. I haven’t met one because she was born in Australia during the pandemic. I can’t wait to be able to meet her. We’re a very close knit family. We were spoiled rotten by mammy and daddy and even though we’re all grown up now, we’re still spoiled.

I have two very different types of work in my life and I love both. I am a nurse, which is not as glamorous as the influencing side of things, but is very rewarding. When my day is done, I know that I’ve done something to help someone else. The influencer work is just so much fun. Influencing wasn’t really a thing when I was growing up, but I always wanted to be a model. I was always nervous telling people that. I think Irish people are very self deprecating so it was a bit like — do you really believe that? But I’ve got to do so many amazing modeling jobs which I’m really proud of as well.