Biography
There would be no happiness, but misfortune helped. The old Russian saying as it is impossible to apply to the biography and career of the dark-skinned Canadian beauty Winnie Harlow. Who knows how the fate of the girl has developed, if not a rare vitiligo disease, stretching its appearance. Perhaps Winnie would be left among thousand "ordinary" models that could not get out of Olympus Fashion industry.
Today Winnie Harlow - the face of the Spanish Caushal brand Desigual and advertises bright, crazy colors and fashion clothes along with supermodel from Brazil Adrian Lima. And in the middle of 2018, the Canadian, which is called the Dalmatian woman, put on the wings and became the new "Angel" of the legendary laundry style of Victoria's Secret.
Childhood and youth
The future "spotted" mannequin in Toronto in July 1994 was born. Parents - Louise Brown and Windsor Yanga - Jamaican origin. In addition to Winnie, which at birth received the name Shator Brown-Young, two more daughters were grown in the family. The childhood of the girl was cloudless up to 4 years, until the doctors diagnosed in her the appearance of a rare chronic disease - vitiligo, which manifests itself in the loss of pygmentation skin.
Soon after that, a father left the family, and the mother with three children turned out to be difficult. She especially got a little chant who could not count on the support of Pope, when the peers were mocked above it. Although vitiligo is a disease that is not transmitted, the baby went by the side. She fully experienced baby cruelty. The nicknames of Zebra and the cow were perhaps the most harmless.
Later, Winnie Harlow confessed in an interview that in childhood and adolescence, her thoughts about suicide were visited. After all, she grew up a sociable and friendly child, stretched to peers, receiving offensive nicknames, ridicule and even beating. The model calls the childhood hell, through which she had to go.
The girl changed several schools where her life was shortly after the appearance became unbearable, while his mother did not find an alternative institution for her, where the same "non-standard" children were studied as she.
Having received basic education, Winnie Harlow settled in a call center. The work suited it for the reason that it allowed to contact people only by phone. But the desire to communicate in the girl did not disappear even after the cruel lessons of childhood. She brought the page to Facebook, where he put his photos. On them, I found an unusual beauty Shannon Budrem, famous Yutuber.
The man suggested Winnie to play in the clip, to which the future model answered consent. And he did not regret: Harlow for the first time felt the taste of glory. So the volitional and purposeful girl managed to turn the lack of dignity and prove with ill-wishers, which also, like everything, has the right to happiness.
Career
The path to success was for Winnie Harlow thorny. After the release of the clip, the girl went to the castings of model agencies, but they were accompanied by constant failures. She did not lose themselves and, starting the page in "Instagram", put a photo that signed many approving responses. On Negative Harlow, believing in his strength, did not pay attention.
In 2014, snapshots of unusual beauty with model parameters (with an increase in 1.75 m Winnie Harloou weighs 55 kg) fell in sight of Taira Banks, the famous model, actress and TV presenter. She found the appearance of Canada inadequate and invited Harlow to become a member of the 21st season of the rating show "Top-model in American". Not spoiled by the gifts of Winnie immediately bought a ticket and went to Los Angeles, where the heart of the world "dream factory" was fed.
Canadian beauty entered the final together with 13 participants and became famous. Winnie Harlow reached the 6th place and dropped out of the television show, but it was enough to stay in the memory of millions of viewers who looked around the project. The girl was offered to sign a contract with the Spanish brand of clothing, and soon Winnie Harlow became the official representative of Desigua.
Participation in the American television show became the turning point, after which the Career Canada began to develop rapidly. Harlow posed for male gloss, starred in photo shoots for famous fashionable brands, participated in shows famous designers in Paris, Milan, London and New York.
In 2015, Winnie Harlow starred in the Spring-Summer Collection of Diesel Marks. A photo session with a "spotted" model made a famous British photographer Nick Knight, who was posing supermodel Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Bella Hadid. After professional pictures and successful Racursi Winnie found that the army of her fans increased at times, moreover, the model had followers.
Harloow's photographs on the cover came out Spanish and Italian glossy magazines "Glamor". In August 2015, the pictures of the Canadian mannequin appeared in the "Cosmopoly" and on the cover of Ebony magazine. Winnie starred in a sprite drink commercial and gave an interview with Vog-Italy website.
Winnie Harlow is not only a model that made a brilliant career in the Fashion industry, but also an activist. The experienced pushed it to defend people, sick vitiligo, and support scientists who are looking for treatment from a rare disease. For the first time, Harloow recorded a video in the summer of 2011, calling him "Vitiligo: the state of the skin, but not the destruction of life." The girl answered the questions most often asked in social networks people with the same disease.
In 2014, Winnie Harlow spoke at the TED Non-Commercial Foundation, famous for annual conferences, where various problems are discussed. She told about life with Vitiligo, the problems of patients and ways to adapt society. The star of the podium is invited to act in the cinema and clips. She appeared in the rollers on the songs of Eminem and Beyonce, flashed in episodes of several films.
Winnie Harlow call style and motivation icon. She has long been "his own" in the ranks of world top models. In the summer of 2017, the beauty appeared in the company Niki Minazh, Kendall Jenner, Sarah Sampayo and Jiji Hadid on Afterpati High Fashion House "Balman". At the same time felt equal and irresistible.
Personal life
The fact that the right to happiness, including in his personal life, have all people without exception, Winnie Harlow has proven in the summer of 2016. Paparazzi found out that the model meets with the famous playboat, a millionaire and a 3-fold winner of Formula 1 Lewis Hamilton. A couple photographed on Afterpati, where the guy kept her beloved by his hand and did not hesitate to demonstrate tender feelings.
In 2015, Hamilton broke up with Beauty Nicole Sherezinger, a vocalist of The Pussycat Dolls team. Young people put a point in a relationship after a 5-year-old novel. The race car driver was hardly worried and admitted to fans, which dreams of a girl who will become the second half loving and understanding. It seems that he met in the face of Winnie Harlow.
Winnie Harlow now
In the ranks of the angels of the mega-popular brand of the underwear "Victoria Sikret", the Canadian appeared in 2018. The girl was offered to sign a contract with a brand, and the model is preparing for the first way out to the podium.
Winnie Harlow is active in social networks, and the army of her fans, which passed in the "Instagram" in the spring of 2018 for 4 million, saw the heroine in the hot photo shoot, which the girl did in Dubai, where he rested. One of the most popular global models starred in underwear and demonstrated the perfect figure.
Harlow has long been able to overcome complexes associated with an unusual appearance. This indicates its appearance in open outfits, not hiding, and emphasizing skin peculiarity. Often Winnie appears in public events in transparent overalls. In such a way she came to show the Spring-Summer Collection of the Christian Dior brand in Paris, and the 24th birthday, the Canadian marked in a transparent robe.