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

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" 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.' "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The worst thing I've done while sad is sit in defeat. That's very unhealthy. The best thing to do is dust yourself off and try again. "

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

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

" There is beauty in everything. "

" My modelling career is about hard work. "

" 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. "

" 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 want to see different faces on the covers of magazines, the stars of movies, featured on billboards. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Winnie Harlow is my alter ego like how Beyonce refers to her stage name as Sasha Fierce. "

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

" I liked to hang around my mom's beauty salon, watching her do hair. "

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

" Like any other kid, I was trying so hard to fit in that school made no sense to me. I wasn't attending class; I was trying to hang out in the caf with the cool kids. I was always trying to be cool. "

" I more so appreciate people loving the fact that I love myself and not just glorifying my skin or me. "