Vivienne Connolly on Modelling: 'You don't realise what prey you are... until you look back"
What A Woman PodcastShow Notes
Vivienne Connolly is Ireland's most successful former top model and Fair City star who rose to fame in the 1990's and shared the catwalk with some of the world's top models including Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Helena Christensen. She also went through one of the country's most high-profile divorces when she split up with her former husband Mark Dunne. Vivienne spent twenty years in modelling, working with some of Ireland's top agencies and she starred in television and film. She has hosted her own very successful lifestyle events for women called Evolvewithviv and she is also a Social Media Influencer with her own youtube channel @VivienneConnolly11.
We talk about
- Walking the catwalk with famous top models
- Exploitation in the industry
- How Vivienne stays looking so good
- Embracing ageing
- Surviving a very public divorce
- Love and life after divorce
Follow Viv:
@vivser (Instagram) @VivienneConnolly11 (YouTube)
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