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" Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle. "
Winnie Harlow
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" With vitiligo, my skin is sensitive in extreme temperatures. "
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" I more so appreciate people loving the fact that I love myself and not just glorifying my skin or me. "
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" I could more label myself as even a spokeswoman for happiness! "
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" Winnie Harlow is my alter ego like how Beyonce refers to her stage name as Sasha Fierce. "
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" I am the underdog, and I want to prove that one can follow one's dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks. "
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" 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 feel like people put too much on the title of a role model. "
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" 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. "
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" I love to play with make-up. I adapt my beauty look to my outfit, so as soon as I know what I'm wearing, I know if I want to go for a red lip or a smoky eye. I usually won't put those two together, but it all depends on what outfit I'm going for. "
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" Kids called me a cow and mooed at me. "
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" 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. "
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" My skin's not a normal sight. "
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" I always loved the spotlight, just not the negativity. "
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" If you're not drinking enough water, or you're not eating enough vegetables, or you're not working out enough, or you're not getting your toxins out, I feel like it always reflects. "
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" I've always been a lot about beauty and products, and skincare and make-up. "
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" I liked to hang around my mom's beauty salon, watching her do hair. "
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" 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. "
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" I am not my skin. I am a model with a skin condition. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself. "
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" I want to see different faces on the covers of magazines, the stars of movies, featured on billboards. "
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" Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" A lot of people ask me how I keep my skin fairly smooth and avoid breakouts, and I think that's because I always take off my make-up before I go to bed, and I mean really take it off. "
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" 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. "
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