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" 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. "

Winnie Harlow

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Winnie Harlow

Kids

Cow

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" Regardless of what race, what color, what sex, what nationality, what sexual orientation - regardless of who you are, equality should always rule! Whatever is right for you is right. Period. "

" My confidence was more of a fake-it-until-you-make-it kind of thing. I tried to build my own confidence and not rely on the opinions of others. "

" The only person that can make you feel that you aren't beautiful is you. "

" With my skin, I have to avoid direct contact with the sun, so that, combined with my mom being conservative, meant I grew up wearing stockings under shorts and long sleeves under tank tops. It was kind of embedded in me that I was supposed to be covering up. "

" There wasn't anyone who was specifically taking me under their wing. I definitely looked up to people, though, one major person being Naomi Campbell, of course. That's, like, a given. "

Winnie Harlow

Though

" I'm very sick of talking about my skin. "

" I loved reading magazines about the entertainment world. "

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

" I'm not a vitiligo spokesperson just because I have vitiligo. "

" I'm just living life. And if that inspires you, I'm proud, but I'm not going to put pressure on myself to be the best person in the world and tell everyone I have vitiligo. If you want to know about it, you can do your research. Either way, I'm not in the dictionary under 'vitiligo.' "

" I try to keep my skincare routine very simple and don't put too much on my face. "

" I had to relearn how to love myself by forgetting the opinions of everyone else and focusing on my opinion of myself. "

" I love to play with make-up. I adapt my beauty look to my outfit, so as soon as I know what I'm wearing, I know if I want to go for a red lip or a smoky eye. I usually won't put those two together, but it all depends on what outfit I'm going 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. "

" 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 wasn't born with vitiligo. It developed when I was 4 years old. My skin changed dramatically over the next few years. "

Winnie Harlow

Years

Skin

" 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 think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different. "

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

Winnie Harlow

Skin

Condition

" I've never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful. "

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

" Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle. "

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

" 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. "

" It's weird to me for people to stare at me, because I feel like I'm normal. I don't see what there is to stare about. "

Winnie Harlow

See

People

" 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. "

Winnie Harlow

Way

Myself

" I learned to love who I am despite what anyone would say about or to me. This gave me the courage to really stand up to anyone or any obstacle in my life. "

" If I'm running around or just hanging out at home, then I barely wear any make-up. "