Fresh Starts and Island Dreams

After qualifying in dentistry in 2011, Hanna completed a senior house officer role at King’s College Hospital in London before earning a Master’s degree in prosthodontics and cosmetic dentistry, alongside membership of the Royal College of Surgeons. She later established her own dental practice and launched the oral-care brand Icy Bear, combining clinical expertise with a passion for confidence-led dentistry. Her public profile grew following her appearance on The Real Housewives of Cheshire, where viewers saw both her ambition and her candid reflections on balancing career and family life. Married to fellow doctor Martin Kinsella and raising two young children, she has often spoken openly about the realities of building a business while maintaining a strong sense of home.

I catch up with Hanna to chat about how she's settlig in to life in Mallorca  -  a move that Hanna describes as both a long-held dream and a carefully considered decision. 

How long have you been thinking about moving to Mallorca?

The move here has been a long time in the making. Myself and my husband Martin were here on holiday years ago and I said to him, ‘I want to live here. I love it here.’

Martin has a clinic here that he comes out to; he’s been doing that for 15 years. So Martin knows Mallorca very well, and obviously since we’ve been together I’ve always come out with him. I just fell in love with the island; I feel like this island is my entire personality as a land mass; I can dress up and get really glam and go down to the port and have a glass of champagne or I can literally go for a hike or I can be really spiritual and go to a hippie ‘do’ in the mountains or I can get on a horse and do horse trekking, it’s just got everything.

A big part of our decision was about our children and the future we want for them. I love the UK and it will always have a special place in my heart, but I did a lot of research before we decided we were going to move. I was asking a lot of family friends and a lot of people who had moved to Mallorca: ‘How was it?’ And every single person was saying they had the most wonderful childhood. Honestly, not one person had a bad word to say about it.

I wake up every morning and I have to pinch myself. I say, ‘Wow, we’ve actually finally done it.’

We made the decision nearly five and a half years ago. We came to Mallorca and bought a plot of land in Cala Vinyes. The plan was to build there, wait for it to be built and then move out. But, of course, you know how it is — things take time. The whole thing kept being pushed back, but it’s going up now. But we wanted to move, we didn’t want to wait, so we thought we’d get a really nice rental property and we’ll come and just live.

In the UK I feel like we’ve had three years of absolute graft with the businesses, we really buckled down into business, and it was tough, working 24/7. So I feel like now coming here, and finally having this place, ‘Yes!’ After all that hard work, we feel that we’ve really worked for it.

Where does your drive come from?

Oh gosh, that’s a good question. I think ever since I can remember, I was always a very imaginative child. I had a very clear image of the type of woman I wanted to be, almost manifesting. I didn’t know what it was when I was a kid, right? But I had this picture and it was manifesting, basically.

And then also, my parents are both very academic, they’re both Iranian, both Persian. My dad moved from Iran when he was 15 and then went back and married my mum when he was 26 and she was 20 and they came over to the UK. But they have grafted, they learnt a different language. My dad’s a professor, so he’s a very academic guy and he’s worked so hard at school and my mum’s the same. So I think there was a real sense of, this is what we do in this family, you’ve got to work hard and if that’s what you want, then you’ve got to be disciplined.

People around you are very quick to say, ‘You can’t do that. What are you on about? That’s ridiculous.’ And I never forget, when I was in school, I really wanted to do dentistry. I was quite a rebel. I used to wear makeup and I was always round the boys’ division. Honestly, I was a little tearaway.

My careers teacher said, ‘Are you joking? You can’t do dentistry. First of all, you want to take that eyeliner off.’ She would never get away with that these days. But, she took a chunk off me. And I was like, I don’t care what you think, I’m gonna do it.

I’ve always been that way — if someone tells me I can’t do it I’m like right, well I’m gonna show you. That self-belief and really believing in your vision is huge.