Who is Liam Paynes ex-girlfriend Maya Henry?
MAYA Henry was once the envy of all One Direction fans after bagging Liam Payne. The pair announced their engagement in 2020, but have since confirmed that they've split for good. Maya Henry is an American 21-year-old with 41,000 Instagram followers. She's a big tennis player, and trains for several hours each day. Her dad is multi-millionaire Thomas J. Henry, a top lawyer based in Texas in charge of a personal injury law firm. Her mum, who is separated from her dad, is Azteca and she has an older brother, Thomas Henry Jr.  Maya's 4million 15th birthday party included performances from Pitbull and Nick Jonas and had a total of 400 guests. In August 2020 it was reported that Liam Payne and Maya had got "engaged". He is said to have proposed with a 3million diamond ring. MailOnline reported that Liam popped the question with the huge rock. But in June 2021, Payne announced he had called off his engagement to the model. He spoke about the split on Steven Barlett's Diary of a CEO podcast. 3 Maya Henry has over 40,000 Instagram followers  He told the host: "I've just not been very good at relationships. "And I know what my pattern of things is with relationships at this point. "I'm just not very good at them so I just need to work on myself before I put myself on to somebody else." The pair were first pictured together at a One Direction meet-and-greet when Maya was just 15. Maya has said that they then met a couple of other times in Buffalo and Dallas. It's rumoured that it was her brother who put the two in touch in 2019. Maya has said that she's used to rubbing shoulders with celebs, and she's often pictured with big names such as Justin Bieber. Maya has said that she'd like to be a human rights lawyer. Her brother is a model, and she's also starting out in the world of modelling. Maya has a charity called Maya's Corner, geared towards children, animals, education and poverty, which she founded in 2008. She was in a YouTube reality show, Hangin With Los Henrys, which follows the planning of Maya's big budget party.