Lyra suffered an alien abduction experience at the tender age of 9. This event sowed the seed for her modeling career's eventual destruction because it exposed her to a far more profound and mysterious world than the fashion industry can offer. Her inquisitive mind naturally and organically led her to neglect her modeling career. Lyra's first book UFO Abductions & Childhood: Protecting the Most Vulnerable hit paranormal circles with a splash. Because of her prior modeling experience, she became the first truly glamorous advocate for the existence of UFO's. Consequently, she enjoys a Megan Fox effect whenever she attends paranormal conferences. She's become extremely popular very fast. Geeks, nerds and paranormal fanboys all flock to hear her panels. As a woman, Lyra suffers insecurity over her lack of formal higher education. What she lacks in accreditation, she makes up for with meticulous research and dogged adventurism. She's self-educated. Unlike most UFO investigators, Lyra will criss-cross the globe to visit encounter sites personally. She wants to be taken seriously as an intellect. In this regard, her modeling career serves as a double-edged sword. It gives her a tremendous advantage over other paranormal authors in terms of publicity. She retains access to mainstream media channels. Her status as a model-turned-UFO-advocate is a novelty that attracts the attention of mainstream society. At the same time, people tend not to take fashion models seriously. She's also a focus of professional jealousy among paranormal colleagues. As a result of her life experiences above, Lyra suffers a mild phobia of public speaking which she muscles through every time. She paradoxically retains her superb confidence on a catwalk, but loses it at the podium because Lyra fears she won't intellectually measure up. Her global adventurism is her attempt to over-compensate...and ironically adds to her mystique among fanboys. Show less «