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" 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. "

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

" If humans want to see the same types of people over and over, that's what industries will give us. If we want to see something different, that's what they'll have to give us. "

" 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. "

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

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" I was never raised as the daughter with vitiligo or the granddaughter with vitiligo or the cousin with vitiligo. I was just Chantelle. "

" My sense of fashion has developed a lot. "

" You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have anybody else love you. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I was young, I was picked on for something that today I feel is amazing. One thing about me connects millions of people around the world. And it's my skin condition - vitiligo. "

" 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 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 was a lucky kid, and I grew up connected to a lot of people. "

" Things were fine in elementary school, but when I moved schools in grade three, not only was I the new kid, I was the new kid with the skin condition. "

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

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

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

" 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. "