![]() ![]() Just because you see someone with whatever it is, even a pimple, you don't get to say that they are suffering. It's something I see often, so I felt like I should say something. Again? Is this a joke?” That's how I feel every single time I see that word placed beside my name. When the Evening Standard ran a picture of me with a caption describing me as a vitiligo “sufferer,” it tore me to shreds. If you don't even have shades dark enough for me, that's saying a lot. Even this past Fashion Week, I was backstage and put in front of a makeup artist and I looked at the range of tones she had-she didn't even have colours dark enough for my skin. With makeup artists, we need to have more people who know how to work with someone with a dark skin tone and not have it turn grey or ashy. I know black hair.” And then they still reach for the tongs or use too high a heat. There are so many people who are like, “Yeah! I've worked on a black girl before. If you've worked on Naomi Campbell, that's not the same as working on kinky hair. For example, with hairdressers-just because you've worked on one black person's hair doesn't mean you know all black hair. When it comes to inclusiveness, still has a lot of work to do. Just the fact that Adwoa 's gorgeous face is on the cover of British Vogue, wouldn't have happened before. Growing up, I would never have imagined someone with vitiligo or freckles on the cover of a magazine. Right now it's so beautiful that there are so many different people and so many different sizes and all that. That was 2013 and the beginning of the time when models who weren't cookie-cutter-pretty were getting booked. I thought, You know what, why not give it a shot? ![]() But then Instagram was becoming a thing and I began posting pictures of myself, and people were liking them. I remember a friend telling me: “I can see you on the cover of Vogue.” And I looked at her like, “Okay….” Not because I thought I couldn't be a model I just never thought about it. Growing up in Toronto, I was always asked by friends who had a T-shirt line or were having a little community runway show to model for them. “It's beautiful that the age of cookie-cutter models is ending”
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