Thursday, February 5, 2015

Meet Winnie Harlow The A-List Model With Michael Jackson's Skin Condition (Photos)

The fashion industry often comes under fire for promoting a one-size-fits-all idea of beauty with some brands only using models of a certain height and weight for their campaigns.

Diesel, however, is proving a point with its spring/summer 2015 campaign, which aims to promote 'tolerance, equality and unconditional love'.

The star of the new shoot is, without a doubt, 19-year-old Winnie Harlow who has vitiligo, a pigment condition that causes white patches to form on skin.
Winnie, a former America's Next Top Model contestant, whose real name is Chantelle Brown-Young, was diagnosed with vitiligo around the age of four.

She was cruelly nicknamed 'zebra' and 'cow' because of the white patches covering her face and body growing up.

Michael Jackson famously had the same condition and explained his pale complexion was a result of the lack of melanin in his skin.

Now Winnie, who describes her self as a 'vitiligo spokesmodel' on Instagram, is being celebrated for her distinctive look.

She has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media and she was recently invited back to her high school to do a motivational talk with students touching on the discrimination she faced.

Winnie first spoke publicly about her skin condition in 2011 by posting a video to YouTube titled 'Vitiligo: A Skin Condition not a Life Changer'.

5 comments:

  1. This kind of condition plenty for 9ja oh...but am glade she turn her own into fame rather than surgery...

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  2. Wow! Good thing d modelling agency decided to use her as a positive example to raise d morale of those who have dis condition. Hmmm! "Uwaifo don talk e own o".

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  3. Foundation dey wey go hide am na, but it's good she's positive about it

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  4. Nice one from her,odas cum n take a cue

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