Yackandandah's own junior model Ella Joy is proving that kids from the country can make it in the big city after being selected to model in the Melbourne Kidz Fashion Week later this year.
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The seven-year-old Yackandandah Primary School student said she's excited to be chosen out of thousands of applicants to head to the Victorian capital.
"I started doing Baby Showtime and then got to kids fashion week which is my dream because I've always loved doing dancing and modelling. I'm really excited to walk down the runway," she said.
"Posing is my favourite part because you get to have fun while you're doing it."
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Ella has been prolific in her modeling career already, earning over 100 trophies at Baby Showtime, which is a charity event that raises money for Kids with Cancer Foundation Australia.
Ella was meant to travel to Melbourne for auditions after originally applying but due to the recent Melbourne lockdown she had to submit a video audition.
"She had to do a video here in our house doing her runway walk up the hallway with her poses and send that through to Kidz Fashion Week," her mother Krystal Wilson said.
"It's very exciting because we live out on a farm out at Staghorn Flat so it just shows that farm kids can make the big time too.
"We all did a bit of a happy dance, we were just shocked really.
"It doesn't matter if you're a kid out in the country, you can still follow your dreams and Ella is sort of proving that to us."
The young starlet also has a Bayside Modelling contract in Melbourne which could see her in TV and magazine advertisements.
"We're extremely proud and with my kids if they want to do something I just tell them to go for it," Ms Wilson said.
"Even if it means driving her all the way down to Melbourne for rehearsals."
Ella will also be participating in the Borders own Go Fashion Show.
Despite all the glamorous clothes and runway walks, Ella is still a country girl at heart her mum says.
"She's definitely confident and she's got that sass about her but she's also not the type of girl that lets it go to her head," she said.
"You can take the girl out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl.
"She'll get in the mud and race around on her motorbike, she goes from one extreme to the other.
