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" 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

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Winnie Harlow

Thought

Growing Up

" I love myself the way I am, but people will always message me about other people with vitiligo who cover their skin. 'Winnie Harlow, you need to tell them that they need to love themselves the way they are and stop covering their skin!' No! If that's what makes them comfortable and what makes them happy, let them be. "

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

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

" 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

School

Friends

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 give kudos to people like Zendaya who are like, 'Yes, I want to inspire young kids.' And I'm like, 'Girl, that's a lot of work!' "

" 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. "

Winnie Harlow

See

People

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

Winnie Harlow

People

Connected

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

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

Winnie Harlow

Years

Skin

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

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

" Social media is a great way to get discovered in the industry because it's free, it's worldwide, and everyone's on it - a very powerful combination. "

" There is beauty in everything. "

Winnie Harlow

Beauty

Everything

" 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 loved reading magazines about the entertainment world. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

Friends

" 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 really talk about 'ANTM,' although I'm very grateful for it, as it was the platform that allowed me to catapult to where I should have been. "

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

" My modelling career is about hard work. "