Hello, My name is Mirella and I am just 18. Since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a model. I would dress up in my mother’s gowns and pretend I was in a beauty pageant, complete with flowers I had picked from the garden and a tiara that was once part of a child’s costume. I pictured in my mind walking down that runway to take my award. I perfected that pageant walk and that pageant wave and of course, I was most talented at blowing kisses to my adoring fans.