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Modelle Hughes-Gervis was 14 when she and her friend attended the Ariana Grande concert that was the target of a terrorist attack which killed 22 people on May 22 2017.

A survivor of the Manchester Arena bombing who was left petrified of crowds and loud noises after the attack when she was just 14-years-old has conquered those fears to reach the Miss England finals.

Manchester Arena bombing survivor Modelle Hughes-Gervis, 20, came runner up in Miss Manchester this week, landing her a place in the national semi-finalsBut she became determined to 'not let anything stand in her way' and slowly grew in confidence to pursue her dreams of becoming a model and beauty queen.

'If you'd have told me at 15 I would be a model in the semi-finals of Miss England, I would have said"what are you on about?". The confidence just wasn't there. Modelle had asked for the Ariana Grande concert tickets for Christmas couldn't wait to watch her favourite singer with her best friend Leah Kelly - it was her 'dream come true'.

'We heard it was a bomb, but we didn't know whether there were planes above us dropping bombs or bombs around the arena.

 

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