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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" The more people see, the more they want to see. "

" I'm happy to inspire your seven-year-old child, but I do not want to be her role model. "

" Kids called me a cow and mooed at me. "

" When I was in high school, I wanted to be so thick that I'd eat all the pizza and all the McDonald's and everything. "

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

" I've always been a lot about beauty and products, and skincare and make-up. "

" I loved myself. And with that, opportunities start to fall into my lap. And I thank God for all of them. "

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

" You should be careful what you choose to see as a role model, whereas inspiration can come from anywhere. "

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

" If one day I'm all black, I'm still a model. If one day I'm all white, I'm still a model. "

" My skin's not a normal sight. When a photographer says, 'I don't know what it is, but that's just not it...' I know. They like the different colours of my skin. They're not getting them with a particular outfit. "

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

" It's amazing what a little encouragement can do. "

" There is beauty in everything. "

" People have black skin, people have brown skin. I have both. "

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

" I have my flaws, but I embrace them and I love them because they're mine. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My parents separated before I was born, but they remained friends, so I was close to both sides of my family, with siblings and cousins and godparents. I've had the same best friend since grade six. "

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

" I give kudos to people like Zendaya who are like, 'Yes, I want to inspire young kids.' And I'm like, 'Girl, that's a lot of work!' "

" I get comments saying that I'm a leper, I control how my skin changes, I bleach my skin, my skin's burned. None of those are true. "