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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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" 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. "

Winnie Harlow

School

Eat

High

" 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. "

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

" I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there's a skeleton under my skin just like yours. "

" I loved myself. And with that, opportunities start to fall into my lap. And I thank God for all of them. "

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

" 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 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Winnie Harlow

She

Race

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you. "

" 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

" When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up. "

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

Winnie Harlow

Name

Ego

" I more so appreciate people loving the fact that I love myself and not just glorifying my skin or me. "

" The only person that can make you feel that you aren't beautiful is 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. "

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

" I am not my skin. I am a model with a skin condition. "

Winnie Harlow

Skin

Condition

" 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. "

" To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist. "

Winnie Harlow

Thought

Growing Up

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

" 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. "

" If one day I'm all black, I'm still a model. If one day I'm all white, I'm still a model. "

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

" 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