Attention Quote by Khoudia Diop

My skin is dark and glows. It almost seems blue, and it's supersoft.

— Khoudia Diop

You are OK however you are, and you are very beautiful.

— Khoudia Diop

I wanted to bleach my skin so bad, but my sister always discouraged me. She'd say, 'This is a bad thing. Don't try it.'

— Khoudia Diop

I was so ashamed of it that I would spend hours in the shower crying and trying to wash my skin off.

— Khoudia Diop

In my country - even though we have a lot of dark-skinned people - people think the lighter you are, the better you are.…

— Khoudia Diop

My sister was the one person who told me not to change, that my skin was beautiful. She really helped me feel good about…

— Khoudia Diop

I was in Italy on vacation, and I saw my reflection in a mirror. I saw how unique my skin was and why people…

— Khoudia Diop

Kids used to tease me and call me 'fille des etoiles,' which translates to 'daughter of the stars.'

— Khoudia Diop

To this day, the first thing that I do every morning is look in the mirror. I'll tell myself, 'Look at your skin. Look…

— Khoudia Diop

I was born in Senegal in 1996. My mom moved to New York when I was two years old, so I was raised by…

— Khoudia Diop

There were times I wouldn't leave my room for weeks and sometimes missed school because I hated how people would look at me. But…

— Khoudia Diop

Where I grew up, we had light-skinned models but not dark. Every time I would talk about being a model with my friends, they…

— Khoudia Diop