of course does not approve, but then again he also knows that he can't control my lifestyle.

COMM: She may look every inch the professional

cover girl, but just two years ago Kate Stoltz lived with her family in a strict Amish community

in rural America.

00:20 COMM: The 23-year-old turned her back on the

traditional way of life, to appear in TLC show Breaking Amish. But now she's turning

heads working full time as a model in New York.

KATE: If I were to even show my father face

to face a lingerie picture that I took he would probably burn it, and tell me that I'm

going to hell.

COMM: Growing up in a religious community

in rural Pennsylvania, Kate's life was a world away from bright city lights.

KATE: I would go out, feed the cows and everything

like that before I go to school, I'd go to school, when I'd come home I would take care

of the calves, make dinner for the family. I would spend maybe about six hours at a time

just out in the fields raking hay.

01:03 COMM: But after leaving her village to appear

in TV series Breaking Amish in 2012, Kate was snapped up by major model management.

KATE: When they told me that they were going

to sign me I honestly didn't even know if I wanted to believe it, it seemed so surreal.

COMM: However making the transition from horse

and cart to cab rides and casting calls hasn't been easy.

KATE: I actually found it really hard to get

used to New York at first because it's so loud, there's so many people, there's always

something going on.

COMM: And Kate had to deal with the disapproval

of the community she left behind.

KATE: The Amish think that modelling is one

of the worst things a woman can do, they see it as flaunting your body and being vain.

Going from not being allowed to have your picture taken to actually doing it for a career

and a lifestyle is a big life change.

KATE: Even though they don't approve of my

lifestyle, they're always telling me to come back home. I couldn't ask for better parents

or better brothers and sisters.

COMM: And thanks to a new group of friends,

Kate is learning to navigate the big city and follow her dreams.

CHRIS: When I first met her I wouldn't say

she didn't look Amish she just looked a little awkward, I think she's breaking a lot of boundaries

with what she can do and she has become more of a New York City girl I think.

COMM: With no desire to return to the Amish

way of life, Kate is making plans for the future, and appearing in a second TLC series,

return to Amish.

KATE: I would never go back to the Amish life.

I couldn't, it would be way too restricting. But now that I'm outside of that I realise

the world is so large, it doesn't matter what one person thinks, the only thing that matters

is like who you are and whether or not you're happy.