MODEL MADELINE STUART, 18 The local girl THE whole world wants

Brisbane’s Madeline Stuart is the world’s first professional adult model with Down syndrome, but hers is much more than a teenage Cinderella story, writes Michael Sheather.

MADELINE STUART IS undoubtedly Australia’s girl of the moment. In May, a photograph posted on social media by her mother plucked this auburn-haired teenager with Down syndrome from relative obscurity and thrust her into the international spotlight with the message that her deepest ambition was to become a model. Today, four months later, Madeline is not just walking down a catwalk. At the time of going to press, Madeline was in New York as the world’s first professional model with Down syndrome to take a headline role in New York Fashion Week, one of the most prestigious fashion events on the planet. More than that, Madeline and her mother/manager, Roseanne, have garnered several commercial modelling contracts with big-name fashion brands and along the way Madeline has picked up an award…

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The Australian Women's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2015

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