At the age of 14 Patience Bradley was whisked away from her life as a horse-mad Belfast teenager to become a model for international fashion magazine Vogue.
Swapping the tack room for international catwalks she rubbed shoulders with some of the most famous names of the 1970s and ’80s.
As well as modelling Patience was well known for her work as a dancer on TV.
In this frank and honest romp through her life at the top of photographic modelling, Patience draws on a fund of amusing anecdotes about her time in front of the camera in some of the most iconic adverts and TV shows of the era.
Patience lives in Holywood (Co. Down) with the love of her life her husband Ivor and her family of Chihuahuas where she continues to involve herself in the world of modelling as well as being an accomplished dog trainer.