Aged 21, Ellie Goldstein has just collected the keys to the home she bought, in a beautiful Essex conservation area, thanks to her earnings from modelling assignments, including appearing on that most coveted of covers, Vogue magazine, in May.As the mortgage company, which confirmed Ellie’s eligibility based on her past three years’ earnings observed, being in a position to buy a house at an age when most sit precariously atop a mountain of student debt — she is also studying performing arts at college — is quite the achievement.In fact, given the doctor’s prognosis, when Ellie, who has Down’s syndrome, was born that she would ‘never walk or talk’, and one nurse’s suggestion that her parents might want to just ‘leave her’ at the hospital, it seems nothing short of a miracle.
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