Quotes from Winnie Harlow

My skin's not a normal sight.

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've never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful.

I'm happy to inspire your seven-year-old child, but I do not want to be her role model.

I definitely hope and I feel that I am inspiring, but I don't like the word 'role model.'

I wasn't born with vitiligo. It developed when I was 4 years old. My skin changed dramatically over the next few years.

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.

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.

To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist.

Kids called me a cow and mooed at me.

I could more label myself as even a spokeswoman for happiness!

I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there's a skeleton under my skin just like yours.

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.

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.

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.

My modelling career is about hard work.

The more people see, the more they want to see.

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.

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'm not a vitiligo spokesperson just because I have vitiligo.

I am the underdog, and I want to prove that one can follow one's dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks.

I always loved the spotlight, just not the negativity.

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.

It's weird to me for people to stare at me, because I feel like I'm normal. I don't see what there is to stare about.