Madeline Stuart is taking the modeling world by storm

June 21, 2018

Model Madeline Stuart

Read how the world’s most famous model with Down syndrome got her start

Allowing your daughter to go into the modeling industry isn’t a decision that any mother would make lightly—but it was an especially hard decision for Rosanne Stuart. It wasn’t tough simply because her daughter, Madeline, has Down syndrome. After all, Rosanne let Madeline do whatever she wanted: She’s tried cheerleading, gymnastics, indoor skydiving, jet skiing, soccer, football, rugby, and even Australian rules football. It wasn’t that Madeline couldn’t do it; it was a question of if she should.

“It absolutely terrified me in the beginning,” Rosanne tells Grok Nation. Rosanne herself had dabbled in modeling when she was young and thought it was “full of sleazy people.” Ultimately she wasn’t interested, but Madeline was. And all it took was attending a fashion show in 2015.

Read the full story on groknation.com.