She is aiming to make history next monthMegan Vincetta-Clarke is aiming to make history in July 2026 as she looks to be crowned Miss Universe Great BritainA woman who has had to fight to overcome the odds all her life is aiming to do the same again next month as she undertakes a new challenge that would make her younger self proud. Casting her mind back to her earliest years, Megan Vincetta-Clarke remembers a far from normal childhood.After periods of homelessness due to violence in their home, a young Megan and her mum family found temporary respite living wirth extended family between Walton, Speke, Croxteth and Waterloo.Megan was eager to improve their situation and soon started “hustling”. Megan, now 34, said: “I always had a little side hustle going, I would skip school, everyone thought I had a secret boyfriend, but actually I had a secret job so I could go and earn money and just help support my household.”Megan faced significant instability as a child(Image: Supplied/Megan Vincetta-Clarke)She added: “From the age of seven to nine I was always doing little things [to earn money]. I used to live by Everton’s ground so I would sit by the corner shop and I’d sellotape bars of chocolate to bottles of water and I’d stand outside the shop and say ‘do you want to buy this?’”I was so cheeky and I I would say I’ll sing a song if you give me an extra pound. Then I got my first proper job when I was 12 in a fish and chip shop.”I was always just trying to help my mum, she was a single mum, so I just wanted to take that stress away from her by being able to buy my own things. If I needed a coat or if I needed money for school, then I knew I could always depend on myself to to get that.”By the time she was a teenager, Megan had begun working on the markets in Liverpool city centre where she was scouted as a model.With work as a model proving to be unstable her entrepreneurial attitude came through again when she became the youngest multi-site manager for fashion label, Kurt Geiger.She said: “Then I got headhunted for Christian Dior and I went on to other premium brands like Hugo Boss.”Megan and her son, Roman(Image: Supplied/Megan Vincetta-Clarke)In recent years she has set up her own wellness business, Namaste and Slay which “connects and empowers” women through “pilates and meditation” among other activities. However, besides maintaining her own business, she is aiming to beat the odds as she looks to make history in the coming months.She said: “I’m competing in the final of Miss Universe Great Britain and then if I was to win I would make history as the first mum.”Prior to 2023, Miss Universe’s rules stated that the women entering the competition must not be married or have children.While winning the competition in itself would be a huge achievement, the possibility to “make history” is something that Megan is relishing.Megan said: “It would mean the world to me because the world that we live in now needs to see that women are so multifaceted and we don’t depreciate because we’ve stepped into the next era of our lives.”Megan Vincetta-Clarke is aiming to make history in July 2026 as she looks to be crowned Miss Universe Great Britain(Image: Supplied/Megan Vincetta-Clarke)She added: “For me to represent women who have felt that they have to put their dreams aside to focus on motherhood, I just want to be an example that it might take longer it might be harder but you can still pursue your own dreams and goals as well as being a full and present mother.””It’s super important for women to be self-sufficient and also maintain some form of career or independence even if they do enter that new motherhood era.”As she stands on the edge of making history in the competition on Tuesday July 7, Megan took a moment to look at how far she has come over the years. She said: “I think if my younger self could see me today, she would be bursting with pride. I don’t think she would be able to believe the things that I’ve achieved, to come from living on a council estate to being homeless to actually owning my own home.”