Francesca Hung COVER STORY
“I don't want to scare you,” she reads aloud, “but you will feel low at times. You will experience anxiousness, fear and heartache. Those are emotions I wish I could spare you from, but then I would be stopping you from becoming the person you see here today.”
At 28, Francesca has come a long way from the vulnerable girl she's writing to but she still very much feels her pain. In 2018, she made history as the first woman of Asian descent to be crowned Miss Universe Australia. Since then, Francesca has worked as a host for E! (interviewing Chris Hemsworth on the red carpet is part of the job), launched a clothing label with her mum called Frankie Lane, and was most recently named a beauty ambassador for Swisse.
Sitting on a sunny deck overlooking Lane Cove River in Sydney for our shoot, Francesca Hung is holding back tears. In her hands is
