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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" My skin's not a normal sight. "

" Vitiligo is just another difference, like freckles, big hair, tiny ears Everyone has differences. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing. "

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" I always loved the spotlight, just not the negativity. "

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