It has been a whirlwind four years for Heath native Sarah Banks Hartshorne.
The 24-year-old model, actress and standup comedian, who graduated from The Academy at Charlemont, and not long after became a contestant on “America’s Next Top Model Cycle 9,” is about to graduate from college with a degree in theater. The spunky, animated brunette currently spends much of her time flying around the country and Europe for modeling jobs.
Her high school sweetheart, Ian Leue from Ashfield, proposed to her in Paris and the couple, living together in Connecticut, are hoping to get married in 2013.
“I never thought I’d have so much going on,” said Hartshorne, who in a telephone interview from her Connecticut home last week said that she never planned on auditioning for ANTM until a friend dragged her there.
And that’s where it all started for Hartshorne — sort of.