Quotes by Winnie Harlow - Page 2

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!'
Winnie Harlow /
Inspire
Work People Young
Young Kids
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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 model, someone to be emulated.
Winnie Harlow /
Believe I Am Feel
Role Model
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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 /
Burned
Leper
Comments
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Being Different
Different Places
Real Issues
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The worst thing I've done while sad is sit in defeat. That's very unhealthy. The best thing to do is dust yourself off and try again.
Winnie Harlow /
Defeat
Dust
Unhealthy
Worst Thing
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I was never raised as the daughter with vitiligo or the granddaughter with vitiligo or the cousin with vitiligo. I was just Chantelle.
Winnie Harlow /
Daughter
Cousin
Granddaughter
Raised
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Admiring
Toronto
First Child
Surrounded
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I didn't have a problem with myself or my skin. I had a problem with the way people treated me because of my skin. They tried to define me.
Winnie Harlow /
Problem
Treated
Myself Me People
Had
Myself Me Skin
Skin
Define
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Confidence
My Own
Rely
Build
Opinions
Tried
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Growing up, I didn't have a lot of real friends, and the people I was friends with, I've grown apart from - they were frenemies more than anything.
Winnie Harlow /
Real Friends
People Real More
More Than Anything
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Makeup
Youtube
Steal
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Combination
Social Media
Great Way
Worldwide
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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 /
Platform
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Elementary School
Fine
Moved
School
Three
Condition
Skin
Elementary
Grade
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Best Yourself Important
Solid
Vent
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Despite
Life Love Courage
Obstacle
Stand Up
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Gig
Myself Real Always
Nick
Prior
Viewed
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You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have anybody else love you.
Winnie Harlow /
First Love
Love You
Self Esteem
Yourself
Because
Love Love Yourself Yourself
Anybody
Anybody Else
Before
First
Else
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Original
Chose
Guess
Supposed
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If humans want to see the same types of people over and over, that's what industries will give us. If we want to see something different, that's what they'll have to give us.
Winnie Harlow /
People Will See
Industries
Types
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Condition
Connects
Millions Of People
Picked
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If you're not drinking enough water, or you're not eating enough vegetables, or you're not working out enough, or you're not getting your toxins out, I feel like it always reflects.
Winnie Harlow /
Drinking
Vegetables
Reflects
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Me People Person
Campbell
Naomi
Specifically
Wing
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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 always take off my make-up before I go to bed, and I mean really take it off.
Winnie Harlow /
Smooth
Always Me Keep
Fairly
Me Skin People
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Equality
Color
Nationality
Orientation
Race
Sex
Should
Always
Period
Whatever
Sexual
Right
Regardless
Rule
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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 and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up.
Winnie Harlow /
Bullying
Calling
Growing Up
Harder
Me Bullying People
Cow
Older
Meaner
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Attending
Cool Always Me
Hang
No Sense
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My parents separated before I was born, but they remained friends, so I was close to both sides of my family, with siblings and cousins and godparents. I've had the same best friend since grade six.
Winnie Harlow /
Best Friend
Born
Both Sides
Sibling
Sides
Six
Since
Both
Friend
Close
Cousins
Grade
Parents
Remained
Separated
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I am happy with my skin, and I'm proud of my skin, which is why I wear it so boldly. But if a job wanted me to, say, try a smoky eye and cover the vitiligo around my eye, I wouldn't have a problem with that.
Winnie Harlow /
Happy
Eye
Problem
Proud
Wanted
Job
I Am Me I Am Happy
Why
Skin
Try
Boldly
Me I Am Happy I Am
Cover
I Am Happy I Am Me
Wear
Smoky
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Travel
Cooking
Grocery Shopping
Impossible
Rotten
Shopping
Two Weeks
Buy
Weeks
Call
Fly
Grocery
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Different Colours
Photographer
Sight
Colours
Outfit
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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 my older cousins were there and I could watch it, I was infatuated with the idea that I could one day be a DJ or the host of a show.
Winnie Harlow /
Girl
Host
House
Infatuated
Mom Me Day
Bet
Cousins
Dj
Watch
Grandparents
Older
Little Girl
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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 pull inspiration from me, be inspired by me. But I definitely don't think I'm a role model. I'm not someone to be imitated.
Winnie Harlow /
Honored
Me Grateful People
Imitated
Role Model
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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 /
Debate
Odd
Always Me Black
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I love to play with make-up. I adapt my beauty look to my outfit, so as soon as I know what I'm wearing, I know if I want to go for a red lip or a smoky eye. I usually won't put those two together, but it all depends on what outfit I'm going for.
Winnie Harlow /
Depends
Adapt
Lip
Outfit
Smoky
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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 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.
Winnie Harlow /
Conservative
Covering
Direct
Embedded
Grew
Shorts
Sleeves
Stockings
Sun
Skin
Avoid
Meant
Combined
Direct Contact
Wearing
Supposed
Tank
Tops
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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.
Winnie Harlow /
Bullied
Painful
Predict
Experienced
Faced
Quit
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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 me. I've combined my real name and my nick name to create 'Chantelle Winnie.' My alter ego, where I seek confidence when I model, is 'Winnie Harlow.'
Winnie Harlow /
Confidence
Ego
Stuck
Teenager
Alter
Combined
Model
Seek
Nick
Real Name
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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 the best person in the world and tell everyone I have vitiligo. If you want to know about it, you can do your research. Either way, I'm not in the dictionary under 'vitiligo.'
Winnie Harlow /
Dictionary
Life Best Myself
Inspires
Just Living
Living Life
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Funnily enough, of course I've always thought B was amazing, but I've never been, like, 'Beyhive status'... until actually meeting her. I would honestly drop anything I'm doing to work for her again. Not just because of who she is but because of my experience with her filming for two days.
Winnie Harlow /
Work Experience Amazing
Filming
Drop
Meeting
Status
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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 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.
Winnie Harlow /
Grabbing
Journalist
Made
Said
Toronto
Video
Youtube
Had
Never
Hit
Shot
Named
Camera
Loved
Possible
Facebook
Model
Saw
Page
Seemed
She
Thousands
Youtube Video
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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. 'Winnie Harlow, you need to tell them that they need to love themselves the way they are and stop covering their skin!' No! If that's what makes them comfortable and what makes them happy, let them be.
Winnie Harlow /
Covering
Love Myself Always
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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 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 /
Condition
Catch
Confronted
Footing
Grade
Mothers
Warned
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