Scouted at the age of 18 on a shopping trip with her mum has led to a successful modelling career for Hana Cross. Working with the industry’s biggest fashion houses, with invites to glittering events and a number of high-profile relationships, you’d expect her to have changed, but she remains refreshingly down-to-earth.
When we speak to her on Zoom she’s sitting cross-legged on her bed, she wanted to meet in person, but there was a train strike the day we were due to speak. “I promise if we’d met up I’d have put on a really cute outfit,” she says with genuine disappointment.
“I’ve just come back from walking my dog, so I’m basically wearing really baggy sweatpants and a little Re/Done tank top, which I love, they are the best things ever.”
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Originally from the Cotswolds, Hana concedes she didn’t know much about modelling as a child. At the time she was signed, she was studying for her A-levels and considering university – she planned to take business with equine studies, or certainly something to do with animals.
“When I was scouted, I decided to give modelling a chance and began travelling to London from the Cotswolds pretty much four or five times a week. All of a sudden I realised I wanted to move to the city permanently to pursue
