Where is pippa o connor from

Fair play to her! So we all know that Pippa O'Connor is majorly successful - but we had no idea how successful!

Rochelle Humes hits back at those giving her a hard time over her C-sections. Vicky Phelan to focus on quality of life over "putting body through torture". She dated Andy Quirke -- possible future brother-in-law to Rosanna Davison, and fellow Krystle-nightclub regular -- before getting engaged to TV presenter Brian Ormond, making her half of Pormond, one of Ireland's most high-profile couples, and a poster girl for all things Celtic Tiger. There's an almost cliched quality to her life thus far, one Pippa herself seems only too aware of.

The day we meet, the Pippa who turns up is miles away from the yellow-blonde, orange-skinned girl of a thousand press calls. With her wedding approaching she is bride-to-be slender.

Gone are the hair extensions and the orange tan. For the last year or so, Pippa has been quietly making herself over, or under, to be exact. Long before others had figured out the aforementioned look was tired, hackneyed and drag queenish, Pippa had. In the harsh morning sun, her face -- lightly freckled, make-up free -- is flawless, dominated by huge, green, almond-shaped eyes, which are framed by incredibly long lashes.

Take away the supportive scaffolding of the tan and fake hair, and hers is a quirky, individual beauty, summed up by the trademark gap between her front teeth, which remains, despite last year's dental work. She's more Sixties movie starlet than former beauty queen. It's easy to assume a brash confidence on the part of someone who has the balls to stand on Grafton Street with nothing but a smile and a bikini protecting their modesty. In fact, in person, Pippa has a gentle quality that verges on vulnerability.

She's seemingly lacking in any self-importance, ego, or the sort of ersatz courage so often found in her peers. In her defence, it was the year Rosanna Davison won, and was subsequently crowned Miss World.

Finished school, and "not knowing what I wanted to do", Pippa fell into working part-time in a clothes shop on Grafton Street. I felt like I was a therapist. But I hated the actual job part of it," she says emphatically. She studied at the Gaiety School of Acting, and did a course at Ballyfermot College of Further Education -- "that TV-presentation course that everyone seems to have done" -- but was essentially drifting.

Luckily, fate intervened; her elder brother Cian competed in the Olympics, which were held in Athens. In the aftermath of the Games, he needed a PA he could trust, and he turned to Pippa. She enjoyed it, but the role took her further away from the world of modelling. I was in that world, eating whatever. There's no way I'm putting myself through that,'" recalls Pippa, whose modesty often threatens to stray over into lack of confidence.

Eventually, aged 21, she agreed to visit the agency; she was immediately snapped up. I'll never forget buying the papers the next day and seeing it.

I thought, 'God, I could get the hang of this. It's a scary time to be an Irish Model. The always finite working life of a model has been brought into stark relief by the recession.

Speak to any Irish Model, and they'll tell you about their second career. Make-up artist, retail, fitness trainer. Age and recession-driven cutbacks mean that full-time modelling is no longer an option for most of our high-profile girls. Ever the realist, Pippa is hoping to steer her own career in a new direction. She recently changed agencies when her long-term friend and mentor Andrea Roche set up her own agency last October.

You want to try and be taken a bit more seriously. And there's so many younger girls, that are probably nearly 10 years younger than me -- why not let them do the press calls? I did it at the start, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it; you have to do it to get known," she says. What would her ideal career trajectory be for the next five years? Lifestyle Newsletter. Sign Up. Created with Sketch. Louise O'Neill. Strong voices, sharp writing on the issues that matter to you.

She's also become an accomplished writer, and her debut book book Pippa: Simple Tips to Live Beautifully previously topped the Irish bestseller charts. But what else do we know about the stunning celeb? Here's the full lowdown on one of Ireland's most successful female entrepreneurs.

She recently said she was "feeling the love" after her family and friends threw her a superb birthday bash. She previously told the Irish Independent: "My dad wanted to go there for work.

At the time, he was into property. They split up over there, and my mum brought us home.