“It's beautiful that the age of cookie-cutter model is ending”

I never wanted to be a model, growing up in Toronto, Canada, I was always asked by my friends, who had a T-shirt line or were having a little community runway show, to model for them.

- Winnie Harlow

I remember a friend telling me, “I can see you on the cover of Vogue.” And I looked at her like, ‘OK, whatever…’ Not because I thought I couldn’t be a model; I just never thought about it at all. But then Instagram was becoming a thing and I began posting pictures of myself, and people were liking them. I thought, ‘You know what, why not give it a shot?’ That was 2013, and the beginning of the time when models who weren’t cookie-cutter pretty were getting booked. Right now, it’s so beautiful that there are so many different people and sizes being represented. Growing up, I would never have imagined someone with vitiligo or freckles on the cover of a magazine. Just the fact that Adw