MY STORY

I grew up with my mother, my brother Joe and my sister Asia. My grandmother was close to us, too. Some of my strongest memories are of the women in my family and the way they kept everything together.

My father left when I was two, so most of the responsibility fell on my mother, with my grandmother helping her raise us. When I was about ten, my grandmother died. Around the same time, my mother lost her job. I watched her find new ways to keep us going, taking whatever work she could find and never letting us lose hope.

I think a lot of who I am comes from those years. Not from one single moment, but from watching the people I loved keep going, again and again.

My mother never asked me to take on her responsibilities, but watching how hard she worked made me want to help in my own way. I first modelled at twelve, at an event called Le Vele in Moda. Later, while continuing my studies, I worked as an usher at Teatro di San Carlo.

Working young gave me independence, but it also gave me perspective. I learned to value each job and to remember what I was working towards. I also stayed close to La Lampada di Scampia, the association founded by my mother to create opportunities for young people in the neighbourhood.

I chose to study Sociology at the University of Naples Federico II because I wanted to understand more about how people, places and opportunities shape one another. Even then, I was learning that I did not have to fit into one definition.

I arrived at Miss Italia as Miss Napoli and was crowned Miss Italia 2021 in Venice in February 2022. Suddenly there was a crown, a title and a much larger audience looking at me.

I was grateful for the opportunity, but I also realised how quickly visibility can reduce a person to an image. I wanted people to see more than that. I wanted to talk about Scampia as I knew it. It is complicated, yes, but it is also full of families, talent and young people working hard to build a different future.

That October, I was invited as guest of honour to the opening of Federico II’s new campus in Scampia. There, I spoke about education and the opportunities it could bring to the place I call home. Beauty may have opened a door for me, but I never wanted beauty to be the only reason I was allowed to stay in the room.

I made my television debut in 2022 as part of the cast of Big Show, alongside Enrico Papi on Canale 5. A few years later, Grande Fratello, the Italian Big Brother, brought me into a different kind of spotlight. I joined the 2024–2025 edition and reached the final.

Inside the house, there was no polished photograph and no carefully chosen moment to hide behind. People saw my emotions, my contradictions, my humour, my sensitivity and parts of my identity that had taken me years to understand and accept.

It was not always easy, but it changed the way I thought about being seen. I stopped thinking strength meant having every answer. Sometimes it means letting yourself change in public, admitting when you are uncertain and choosing honesty even when it would be easier to become the version of you that other people already expect.

During Grande Fratello, people from different countries, languages and lives began finding one another through my journey. What started as support around a television programme became the Zeudiners, a community that stayed after the cameras stopped. What touches me most is not only how far that community reached, but what people chose to do with that connection.

Over time, their support became generosity too. They came together, helped causes they believed in and turned affection into something that could help other people. Their charity record lists more than €100,000 donated to charities and organisations.

Behind every initiative are people who gave, organised and cared. I am grateful that something in my story helped them find one another.

As my life has changed, so has our relationship. The cameras are different now, but I still feel the community beside me as I grow and try new things. That is what makes the Zeudiners special to me.

They never felt like just an audience. What began with people watching my story became people choosing to stay for what came after.

Modelling has stayed with me as I’ve moved into creating content, and I like being able to bring something of myself to each project. That part of my work has led to collaborations with DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger, Intimissimi, YSL Beauty, Pandora, Samsung, BMW Italia and Coca-Cola Europe. My creativity has a place in the tattoo studio, too. Drawing and tattooing have always fascinated me, and I now work in a studio as a licensed tattoo artist, expressing that interest through something I make with my hands.

Television brought people into my life who might otherwise never have known me. It also brought recognition beyond Italy: Best Reality Star at the BreakTudo Awards in 2025 and International Reality-Show Star at the SEC Awards in 2026, both in Brazil. Alongside those public moments, I’ve wanted to keep sharing the everyday ones. When I began streaming on Twitch in September 2025, it gave me a place to do that with the Zeudiners and with people discovering me for the first time.

By February 2026, the channel had reached number one in Italy by subscriptions and was reported to rank third worldwide. In March, it reached a peak of more than 71,000 active subscriptions, including gifted subscriptions. Seeing how far those evenings together have reached has become a memorable part of this journey.

The streams themselves are often simple: we talk, laugh, cook or spend an ordinary evening together. On IRL streams, I take you out with me, sharing beautiful corners of Naples and the places I visit on my travels. I like being able to share those parts of my life as they happen, with room for whatever the day brings.

The experiences I have had and the people I have met along the way have helped me understand myself better.

Now I want to keep building with intention. Acting is something I want to approach seriously. I have begun studying it, and I want to keep learning, training and earning the next opportunity rather than expecting visibility to carry me there. I know attention can disappear as quickly as it arrives. What stays is who you have become and the work you have put in when nobody was looking.

I still carry the girl who watched her mother start again, the neighbourhood that taught me not to accept other people’s limits, and the instinct to keep moving even when I do not have a clear map. I do not know exactly what the next chapter will look like, and I like that. I want to keep enough freedom to change, enough curiosity to begin again and enough honesty to remain myself while I do it.