Canadian model Winnie Harlow, born Chantelle Brown-Young, did not have an easy childhood. At the age of four she was diagnosed with vitiligo, an incurable skin pigmentation disease that causes colorless patches to develop on a person's body.
Bullied
for the way she looked, her peers at school taunted her with cruel
nicknames such as "cow" and "zebra". "The bullying was so bad that I was
forced to drop out and be home schooled," Harlow recalls.
Fast-forward
to 2016 and Harlow has over one million followers on Instagram, she's
the face of Spanish fashion label Desigual and she's been shot by
fashion photographer and director of online platform SHOWstudio Nick
Knight, whose portfolio includes Kate Moss, Lady Gaga and Kanye West.
From social pariah to global "it" girl, Harlow has ascended to fashion's top table.
She has even made it to BBC 100 WOMEN OF 2016 list.
Here she is in pictures:
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