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How a supermodel and a writer found love and God in New York

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There is more uplifting symbolism folded into the meta narrative of the movie.

The 42 year old beauty grew up in Athy, Co Kildare, where her family are bakers, only got into modelling after her sister entered her in the Ford Supermodel of the World competition. She represented Ireland at the event, which was held in Florida in 1993, and while she didn win, it did propel her into a life on the catwalks of Paris. It Fake Louis Vuitton Replica Bags sounds like a dream life but Bradbury tells me that in fact it was a miserable experience to begin with. "When you start out you spend endless hours on the Metro", she told me. "There would be 10 or 11 appointments a day, with endless rejection. It was very tough not to take it personally. I mean, how you look is fairly personal, after all. Even when it worked it wasn always easy. They might take you and another girl on but use her all the time and you barely at all. As time passed I learned how to handle it better."

In those early days of modelling Jane had an experience which would haunt her. "When I was 20 I had a really bad experience with LSD and It was the last time I ever took drugs. I hallucinated, and even months after I would have acute anxiety. I was one of the lucky ones who replica louis vuitton bags survived. There is horrible shit in drugs and young people don care what they taking. The months after were very challenging and it was my dream career but I was also dealing with the horrible side effects of the drugs experiences."

During this time Jane says that she felt her faith was an fake louis bag important source of solace. "During that time I travelled a lot through Europe and there would be these beautiful old churches in many of the cities and I would be drawn toward them for a sense of comfort from everything I was going cheap louis vuitton bags from china uk through," she explains. "They were places I felt at peace. I know the Catholic church has done horrible things but when you find a faith that alive, well, that an incredible experience."

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But even in New York modelling was sometimes a tough business.

"I worked with French Vogue and Harper Bazaar, which sounds glamorous, but my life was very transient. It was exciting but it was also very demanding physically. You always had to be in shape or under shape. I was hungry a lot. I had to under eat because sometimes I didn have the time or energy to go to the gym.

Jane wanted to try to break into acting and in 1998 she auditioned for a role in a small movie by a rising star in the film industry.

Todd Komarnicki had come from a similarly ordinary background and like Jane had begun to make a name for himself. "All I wanted to do was play baseball," he says. I had a vague idea about being a rock star because I was always in a band growing up but that didn turn out to my luck. Fortunately God nudged me toward writing."

By the time they met at the audition Jane and Todd were both in their twenties. Another thing they had in common was that Todd faith had also provided solace for him during tough times as an adult. "I put myself at risk in different ways before I came to my faith. Not poor decisions in an addictive way I actually never done a drug I just more mean that when you are casual with the gift of life you can put yourself in different positions where it could be easily snuffed out. I leave that to the imagination."

During the audition process it wasn love at first sight, Jane explains, but she felt a "deep spiritual connection" with Todd, adding: "He is very charming and magnetic. People love him, he constantly serving people. "There would be famines or droughts. He be fishing and fishing and not catching anything. Things would not be picked up or they would be picked up and then not filmed.

They married in 2010 and have two children, Remy (7) and Dashiel (4). Todd tells me that fatherhood was a transformative experience for him. "I was 44 years old when Remy was born and I genuinely thought I seen the full map of happiness the full geography of what it like to be alive. You guided into a whole other landscape. That what fatherhood has been for me."

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Earlier this year Jane began volunteering with Every Mother Counts an organisation founded by supermodel Christy Turlington. "I blog replica louis vuitton handbags with replica louis vuitton bags Christy, she a great pioneer and a great person. We had an event last month and a lot of people from the fashion world came."

She and Todd have a pastor, a 30 year old law student (and a nephew of Rick Warren who presided over Barack Obama inauguration) who preaches about subjects like anxiety and depression. It all sounds much more colourful than your average Sunday morning in an Irish pew but on this side of the pond there is perhaps a reflexive suspicion of American Christianity and its associations with right wing politics, something Todd, who prays several times every day, readily acknowledges.

"People are sceptical of people of faith but when they meet me they see it genuine, it not a performance, this is the real me. The media are drawn to the squeaky wheel, so when you have particular groups espousing faith at the same time as they espousing hate then that will draw a camera." Jane says she suffered "shell shock" after the Trump election result. One might think from recent news coverage that a devout Christian would still somehow hold his nose and vote for Trump (who is to the right of most major social issues in America) but Todd dismisses this idea.

"We saw in the recent election people who would consider themselves Christian devote themselves to someone who does anything but lead a charitable, Christian life," he says. "I don think you can really say you are following Jesus and really vote for Trump. Some people attitude to the church sort of mirrors the person who goes to the rowdiest football match and only looks into the stands at the fans. There is a game on the pitch. That should be the focus. You don become a fan by looking at the fans. If you trying to understand Christianity by looking at Christians you gone wrong. We are all fallen, we are all saved by grace."

He sees his creativity as being tied up with his faith. "It a mystical thing to be involved in creating something. I like what Bono says about always being in the rehearsal space, even when U2 are on tour. He says he doesn want to be missing when God walks through the room."

Jane recently got her American passport. "It was a beautiful ceremony and a great moment in my life," the bubbly brunette says. "I been here for 20 years and Obama said to us that you here it your obligation to make your nation a better place I take that very seriously. It a big honour." She and Todd divide their time between Manhattan, their home in Tribeca, and Ireland, and they are coming back here for a few months to film The Trainer with Neil Jordan and Liam Neeson, which Todd wrote.