Winnie Harlow Quotes

Winnie Harlow

Profession : Model

Birth : July 27, 1994

I liked to hang around my mom's beauty salon, watching her do hair.

Winnie Harlow

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.

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With vitiligo, my skin is sensitive in extreme temperatures.

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I loved reading magazines about the entertainment world.

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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.

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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.

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If one day I'm all black, I'm still a model. If one day I'm all white, I'm still a model.

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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.

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

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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.

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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 fan.

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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.

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For me, honestly, the term 'role model' means for someone to be imitated, and I don't feel like anyone is to be imitated.

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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.

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

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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.

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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 and everything.

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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.

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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.

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