It's Beautiful That The Age Of Cookie-Cutter Models Is Ending

I never wanted to be a model. 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.

- Amanda FitzSimons

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. 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 so many different sizes and all that [represented]. Growing up, I would never have imagined someone with vitiligo or freckles on the cover of a magazine. Just the fact that Adwoa [Aboah]’s gorgeous face is on the cover of British Vogue, wouldn’t have happened before.