And while she’s still a TV presence, Thompson’s life is anything but glitzy.

“It’s very, very hard,” Thompson told the magazine.

“It’s something I’d wish on nobody, for real.”

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The interview paints a portrait of a young woman surviving and even thriving under difficult circumstances.

Her fans are sending congratulations and “proud of you!”

messages to her Instagram account.

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“I don’t understand why people think this way.”

Neither does her family.

She sounded off on the trolls in a recent interview with British tabloidThe Sun.

“Alana is beautiful,” she said.

We all could be models."