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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Winnie Harlow

Saying

Skin

True

" 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. "

Winnie Harlow

People

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

" 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. "

" I'm not a vitiligo spokesperson just because I have vitiligo. "

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

" 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. "

" If God wanted be to be black, I'd be black; if he wanted me to be white, I'd be white, so I guess He chose for me to be both and original. That's the way I'm supposed to be. "

" Regardless of what race, what color, what sex, what nationality, what sexual orientation - regardless of who you are, equality should always rule! Whatever is right for you is right. Period. "

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

" I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

Winnie Harlow

Name

Ego

" 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 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

" 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. "

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

" My mom will sometimes call me Winnie. It's so annoying. I'm like, 'Who are you talking to?' "

Winnie Harlow

Talking

Mom

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 think you have to feel your best by yourself. I do think it's important to have a solid friend that you can turn to, though - one that you can vent to. "

" There is beauty in everything. "

Winnie Harlow

Beauty

Everything

" 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. "

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

" 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!' "