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All Quotes by author - Winnie Harlow

" A journalist in Toronto named Shannon Boodram saw my Facebook page and told me I was 'strikingly beautiful.' She shot a YouTube video of me, and it made a hit, grabbing thousands of views. She said the camera loved me and that I should be a model. I had never thought about modeling - it just hadn't seemed possible. "

" A lot of people ask me how I keep my skin fairly smooth and avoid breakouts, and I think that's because I always take off my make-up before I go to bed, and I mean really take it off. "

" Chantelle Brown-Young is my real name. Winnie is my nickname that I was given as a teenager, and it has stuck with me. I've combined my real name and my nick name to create 'Chantelle Winnie.' My alter ego, where I seek confidence when I model, is 'Winnie Harlow.' "

" Chantelle Winnie is my birth name. Chantelle Winnie Harlow, I call her my Sasha Fierce. "

" Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' house, and my older cousins were there and I could watch it, I was infatuated with the idea that I could one day be a DJ or the host of a show. "

" Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you. "

" For me, honestly, the term 'role model' means for someone to be imitated, and I don't feel like anyone is to be imitated. "

" For me personally, I have vitiligo, so my whole career, it's always been this very odd debate: 'Does she want to be white? Is she white and black? Is her mum white?' It's always been this question of my background, my race, and what I stand for. "

" Funnily enough, of course I've always thought B was amazing, but I've never been, like, 'Beyhive status'... until actually meeting her. I would honestly drop anything I'm doing to work for her again. Not just because of who she is but because of my experience with her filming for two days. "

" Growing up, I didn't have a lot of real friends, and the people I was friends with, I've grown apart from - they were frenemies more than anything. "

" Growing up in the greater Toronto area, I was a happy kid. I was my mother's first child, surrounded by admiring godparents and cousins. "

" I always loved the spotlight, just not the negativity. "

" I am happy with my skin, and I'm proud of my skin, which is why I wear it so boldly. But if a job wanted me to, say, try a smoky eye and cover the vitiligo around my eye, I wouldn't have a problem with that. "

" I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there's a skeleton under my skin just like yours. "

" I am not my skin. I am a model with a skin condition. "

" I am the underdog, and I want to prove that one can follow one's dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks. "

" I could more label myself as even a spokeswoman for happiness! "

" I definitely hope and I feel that I am inspiring, but I don't like the word 'role model.' "

" I didn't have a problem with myself or my skin. I had a problem with the way people treated me because of my skin. They tried to define me. "

" I discovered that I was 'different' in the third grade. As the new kid at school, I was trying hard to find my footing. I thought I had made friends with a couple of girls - until they stopped talking to me. When I confronted them, they said their mothers had warned them to stay away because they might catch my skin condition. "

" I don't do much cooking because it's impossible when you travel so much. You go grocery shopping, buy everything, and then get a call to fly out for two weeks. By the time you're back, all the food is rotten. "

" I don't perm my hair anymore, but I'm not a natural hair expert just because it grows out of my head like that. "

" I don't really talk about 'ANTM,' although I'm very grateful for it, as it was the platform that allowed me to catapult to where I should have been. "

" I don't remember my skin changing, but I do recall feeling deeply loved by my family. "

" I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself. "

" I don't want to be put in a category. "

" I faced challenges as a kid, but who hasn't? A lot of people have experienced far worse. I was bullied, sure, and it was painful at the time. I even quit high school to get away from it. But I've never been the kind of person to let my past predict my future. "

" I feel like I am an inspiration. That's the word I prefer. I don't believe that I have to be a role model, someone to be emulated. "

" I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. "

" I feel like I pull inspiration from everyone, and I feel like I'm honored and grateful that people feel that they can pull inspiration from me, be inspired by me. But I definitely don't think I'm a role model. I'm not someone to be imitated. "

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