Career
She is best known for participating in Cycle 4 of, in which she placed fourth. She has also appeared in numerous acting roles, most recently in an episode of Waterloo Road playing Tasha Lefton, a diabetic pupil who will go as far as refusing to take insulin so that she can lose weight, to be "Rochdales next top model". Cairns was announced as one of the fourteen girls who participated in, Cycle 4.
Throughout her stay she was often criticised for being fake and was labeled a "Bible Basher".
She appeared in the bottom two with eventual second runner-up Stefanie Wilson, the judges decided to send her home. Cairns was immediately signed to Models 1 in London, after appearing on the show, being the first non-winning contestant to be signed by the prize agency.
A year later, she had left Models 1 and joined Nevs, another agency based in London. She made an appearance in Series 4, Episode 17 of Waterloo Road as disruptive pupil, Tasha Lefton, which was aired on 29 April 2009 on BBC1.
She is currently studying Performing Arts at an exclusive New York Institute.