"In modelling you need a tough skin," Nadia Forde confesses in the new issue of Hot Press. "I know a lot of people don't take modelling very seriously, but it is an industry based on rejection and judgement – and you do really have to be tough and have a lot of faith in yourself to be able to deal with that and to let it get to you. And
With the 25-year-old now embarking on a singing career, she also admits that, when it does to people judging her by her looks, she'd be be "far more hurt" if people were critical of her music.
Forde goes on to tell Roe McDermott that her fear of rejection stems from her parents' absence during childhood.
“I’m quite introverted," says the star of three-part TV series Nadia Goes Hollywood. "I’m not the biggest partier in the world, despite what people may think. Because I model, there are all kinds of stereotypes that go with that, so people do make assumptions about you. I know there are people who are like ‘Nadia, really? Singing? Not another model-turned-singer'. I’m not stupid, I know what people are thinking. I've got better with criticism, because it’s going to be there no matter what you do. But this is something I’ve loved and wanted to do since I was a kid, and I’m getting the opportunity to now.”

Also on the agenda in this fortnight's revealing Hot Press Interview – FHM photoshoots, singing the Irish anthem in the Aviva Stadium and more.

Read all about it in Hot Press (Imelda May cover), on sale now.