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My skin's not a normal sight. When a photographer says, 'I don't know what it is, but that's just not it...' I know. They like the different colours of my skin. They're not getting them with a particular outfit. ”
I want to see different faces on the covers of magazines, the stars of movies, featured on billboards. ”
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. ”
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. ”
I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself. ”
My mom will sometimes call me Winnie. It's so annoying. I'm like, 'Who are you talking to?' ”
I definitely hope and I feel that I am inspiring, but I don't like the word 'role model.' ”
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. ”
I'm very sick of talking about my skin. ”
My sense of fashion has developed a lot. ”