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

" I remember sitting by my window, wishing upon the stars that my skin condition would go away. I wondered, 'Why me?' "

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

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

" 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. "

" With vitiligo, my skin is sensitive in extreme temperatures. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've been doing my own makeup since I was 15. I would steal my mom's products, go online, watch YouTube videos of girls doing their makeup, and try. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't do much cooking because it's impossible when you travel so much. You go grocery shopping, buy everything, and then get a call to fly out for two weeks. By the time you're back, all the food is rotten. "

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

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

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