Katja Mia, 28, is an Irish model and influencer, co-presenter of Virgin Media’s The Six O’Clock Show and former contestant on Dancing with the Stars. She previously worked in finance and began her presenting career as a reporter and fill-in presenter on Ireland AM. Her mother Carinie, 61, left Burundi with her husband Joseph, living first in Germany, where Katja was born in 1996, then, when Katja was 17 months old, the family came to Ireland. She works in retail for SuperValu. Here, Katja asks — woman to woman rather than daughter to mother — about her life experiences…