Zitat des Tages von Winnie Harlow:
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.
The more people see, the more they want to see.
I don't remember my skin changing, but I do recall feeling deeply loved by my family.
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.
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.
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.
My mom will sometimes call me Winnie. It's so annoying. I'm like, 'Who are you talking to?'
Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.
I more so appreciate people loving the fact that I love myself and not just glorifying my skin or me.
To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist.
It's amazing what a little encouragement can do.
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.
I don't want to be put in a category.
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.
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.
I feel like people put too much on the title of a role model.
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.
I liked to hang around my mom's beauty salon, watching her do hair.
With vitiligo, my skin is sensitive in extreme temperatures.
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.
Chantelle Winnie is my birth name. Chantelle Winnie Harlow, I call her my Sasha Fierce.
I definitely hope and I feel that I am inspiring, but I don't like the word 'role model.'
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.'
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 always loved the spotlight, just not the negativity.
I had to relearn how to love myself by forgetting the opinions of everyone else and focusing on my opinion of myself.
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 fan.
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 is my alter ego like how Beyonce refers to her stage name as Sasha Fierce.
I am not my skin. I am a model with a skin condition.
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.
My modelling career is about hard work.
I could more label myself as even a spokeswoman for happiness!
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.
I don't think it's good to focus on being celebrated but to celebrate yourself.
I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents.