roundbreaking supermodel starts her memoir with a strange statement. “The first thing you should know about me,” she writes, “is that I am happy.” This is a woman who, at the age of just 21, has graced the cover of, modelled for Gucci, been the face of a new Barbie launch, and even had a statue of her erected on London’s South Bank. Why on earth should we need to be told she is happy? Well, says Ellie, it’s because sometimes people are “really surprised” to hear it. Ellie has Down’s syndrome – and too often in
