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Winnie Harlow

(1994) Model

95 quotes in 297 categories

Winnie Harlow says she is a model with vitiligo, not defined by her skin. She explains how social media helped her get noticed and how she learned to love herself despite opinions from others. She also talks about staying hydrated, eating vegetables, and exercising to keep her skin healthy.

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Winnie Harlow is a model.

Quick Facts About Winnie Harlow

Born: July 27, 1994
Profession: Model

About Winnie Harlow

Jamaican-Canadian fashion model... | Chantelle Whitney Brown-Young, known professionally as Winnie Harlow, is a Canadian fashion model, actress and public spokesperson on the skin condition vitiligo. She gained prominence in 2014 as a contestant on the 21st cycle of the U.S. television series America's Next Top Model. Harlow later appe

Quotes by Winnie Harlow

My sense of fashion has developed a lot.

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

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My modelling career is about hard work.

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

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My skin's not a normal sight.

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

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Kids called me a cow and mooed at me.

Children

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I always loved the spotlight, just not the negativity.

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

Being

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I want to see different faces on the covers of magazines, the stars of movies, featured on billboards.

Billboards

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

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

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

Alter ego

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I don't remember my skin changing, but I do recall feeling deeply loved by my family.

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People sometimes ask when I learned to love myself. But that was not the issue.

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

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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…

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

Entertainment

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I feel like I am an inspiration. That's the word I prefer. I don't believe that I have to be a role…

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When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of…

Bullying

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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…

Being

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I wasn't part of the BeyHive before I met her, but after my experience working with her, meeting her, I'm a die-hard…

Experience

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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…

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Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' house, and…

Day

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I love myself the way I am, but people will always message me about other people with vitiligo who cover their skin.…

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I discovered that I was 'different' in the third grade. As the new kid at school, I was trying hard to find…

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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…

Confidence

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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…

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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…

Conservative

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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…

Beautiful

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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…

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I loved reading magazines about the entertainment world.

Entertainment

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I'm very sick of talking about my skin.

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

Amazing

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I've always been a lot about beauty and products, and skincare and make-up.

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

God

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I don't perm my hair anymore, but I'm not a natural hair expert just because it grows out of my head like…

Expert

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

Alien

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You should be careful what you choose to see as a role model, whereas inspiration can come from anywhere.

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