Shahira barry biography
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Shahira carves out glittering career for herself in LA
With her smouldering dark looks, Shahira Barry’s nationality is often called into question – which annoys the LA-based model who is proud of her heritage, and is a ‘Galway Girl’ through-and-through.
The dominant genes Shahira inherited from her Bangladeshi grandfather add to the confusion, as does her name – appropriately meaning ‘famous’ in Arabic.
Not that Yasmin Barry realised what the name meant 24 years ago, when she named her daughter after a warrior princess.
None of this has done Shahira any harm career wise, as her biggest claim to fame has been doubling for reality star, Kim Kardashian, and her sisters, on the E! Channel.
Her maternal grandmother, Nancy Faherty from Leenane, Connemara, fell in love with her grandfather, Abdul, in the UK, where he was a member of the British Navy – but otherwise, she is ‘all-Irish’.
“Some people would say I look mixed, while others say I look Irish, so it depends who you’re asking really,” she told the Galway City Tribune.
“But when I’ve been in the press – particul
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Vote to help Athenry model become face of German clothing company
A County Galway model is one of the finalists in an international modelling competition.
Shahira Barry from Athenry, who works with Assets Modelling Agency in Dublin, has been chosen as one of the top 10 in the contest to become the face of the Front Row Society clothing company in Germany.
The 20-year-old, who studied primary teaching at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick and graduated from there in October, says she is very excited at being selected to represent her country.
“I would love to win this competition to represent Galway, where I’m from, Assets in Dublin and Mary Immaculate College in Limerick where I studied,” says Ms Barry whose grandmother was from Connemara while her grandfather was from Bangladesh.
She is keen to get both local and national support for the next and final stage of the competition.
“The next stage is to create my own video and get people to vote on it on the Front Row Website until January 8.
The link to my public Facebook page is http://www.faceb
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