"I always believed my daughter was stunning but I thought, 'I’m her mum. I’m biased,'" she says.
"When the agency rang me and said, 'We want her on our books. She’s absolutely beautiful', I was delighted.
"I asked them if they were aware she had Down’s Syndrome. They said: 'It’s immaterial. We’ve accepted her.' At that moment I burst into tears. I was overjoyed, not so much because Taya was going to be a model. More importantly, she had competed on equal terms with every other child and succeeded ... "
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