Ruth Crilly & Caroline Hirons

Please note this event is now taking place at St Swithin's Church. The date and time remain the same.

This evening Skincare Queen, Caroline Hirons chats to former supermodel turned online content creator Ruth Crilly about her funny and nostalgic memoir, How Not To Be A Supermodel.

Imagine being a model in the heady noughties, travelling all over the globe, your face on billboards everywhere. As Miranda Priestley might say, 'a million girls would kill for this job': well, Ruth Crilly is here to tell you why that might ... not ... quite be true.

England. 2001. Ruth Crilly has embarked on a law degree and is destined for a life of normality and stability. That is, of course, until she sticks a polaroid of herself in a box somewhere in Birmingham and is scouted by one of the biggest agencies in the world.

Flung between Redditch and Milan, telesales and Vogue, wizard cloaks and red shearling coats, follow Ruth through a rip-roaring, hilarious decade of not-quite-making-it as a supermodel. Fuelled by little more than cigarettes and a fear of being measured she criss-crosses the world in pursuit of fame and fortune.

Bridget Jones meets the Devil Wears Prada as told by a mix of Marina Hyde and Bryony Gordon: How Not To Be A Supermodel is a time capsule of a book that dives into one of the world's most fascinating industries. Offering a glimpse into both the high glamour and juddering reality of a by-gone era, this is a comic memoir gracefully relayed by a pessimistic, sardonic disaster-magnet.

Caroline Hirons is a bestselling author and undisputed Queen of Skincare who is on a mission to help all ages and skin types feel fantastic. She is the author of Skincare: The New Edit. She is a globally qualified advanced aesthetician. Her career has involved developing bespoke facials and training teams internationally for top brands in the UK, USA and Far East. She has been in retail for 34 years, working as a consultant to brands in the beauty industry for over ten years, advising brands on the route into market, where they should be selling and why.

Ruth Crilly is an award-winning online writer and content creator respected for her honest beauty reviews and loved for her hilarious, unfiltered life updates. After spending over a decade as a fashion model, she became one of the UK's first social media stars in 2010.