A woman who couldn’t afford to enroll at beauty school was left stunned when Chrissy Teigen stepped in to pay for her tuition.

Mercedes Edney, from North Carolina, is a skincare expert who has been running her own organic beauty company, Ixora Botanical Beauty, since 2012.

She desperately wanted to go to beauty school to achieve her dream of becoming a beautician but couldn’t afford the $7990 (approximately £6444) fees, so she launched a kickstarter campaign to help raise the funds, writing that she wanted to “further my skin care knowledge by getting my licence in aesthetics”.

After a month, she had only raised $400 (£322) of her target, so she decided to tweet out a link to the fundraising page (below) with the hope of reaching her goal.

Chrissy Teigen pays for young woman to go to beauty school