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" 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. "
Winnie Harlow
Natural
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Just Because
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" 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. "
Winnie Harlow
Always
Trying
School
" 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. "
Winnie Harlow
Proud
Happy
Me
" My modelling career is about hard work. "
Winnie Harlow
Hard
Work
Modelling
" 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. "
Winnie Harlow
Role Model
Think
People
" When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up. "
Winnie Harlow
Bullying
Growing Up
People
" 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.' "
Winnie Harlow
Research
Life
Myself
" Winnie Harlow is my alter ego like how Beyonce refers to her stage name as Sasha Fierce. "
Winnie Harlow
Name
Like
Ego
" 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. "
Winnie Harlow
Mom
Long
Skin
" 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. "
Winnie Harlow
Growing
Up
Friends
" I want to see different faces on the covers of magazines, the stars of movies, featured on billboards. "
Winnie Harlow
Different
Movies
See
" I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there's a skeleton under my skin just like yours. "
Winnie Harlow
Human
Brain
I Am
" I'm very sick of talking about my skin. "
Winnie Harlow
Sick
About
Very
" Nick Knight was my first big gig as a 'real' model. Prior to and during 'ANTM,' I never actually called myself a model because I always viewed it as a hobby. "
Winnie Harlow
Real
Always
Myself
" I could more label myself as even a spokeswoman for happiness! "
Winnie Harlow
Label
Happiness
Even
" My skin's not a normal sight. "
Winnie Harlow
Sight
Normal
Skin
" It's amazing what a little encouragement can do. "
Winnie Harlow
Encouragement
Little
Amazing
" I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself. "
Winnie Harlow
Good
Focus
Celebrate
" 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. "
Winnie Harlow
Me
School
Friends
" 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. "
Winnie Harlow
Growing Up
Child
Mother
" I think you have to feel your best by yourself. I do think it's important to have a solid friend that you can turn to, though - one that you can vent to. "
Winnie Harlow
Think
Best
Friend
" 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. "
Winnie Harlow
Challenges
Future
Time
" You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing. "
Winnie Harlow
You
Rock
Alien
" Chantelle Winnie is my birth name. Chantelle Winnie Harlow, I call her my Sasha Fierce. "
Winnie Harlow
Her
Birth
Fierce
" 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. "
Winnie Harlow
Experience
She
Amazing
" I don't remember my skin changing, but I do recall feeling deeply loved by my family. "
Winnie Harlow
Family
Skin
Remember
" The only person that can make you feel that you aren't beautiful is you. "
Winnie Harlow
Beautiful
Person
Only
" I loved reading magazines about the entertainment world. "
Winnie Harlow
World
Reading
Entertainment
" To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist. "
Winnie Harlow
Up
Thought
Growing Up
" I was a lucky kid, and I grew up connected to a lot of people. "
Winnie Harlow
People
Up
Connected
" We lived on our own for a very long time, and those are my happiest years, me and my mom. "
Winnie Harlow
Long Time
Me
Mom