Model with rare skin disease is changing the face of fashion

 

 

19-year-old Winnie Harlow, who has the skin pigment condition vitiligo, has gone from America’s Next Top Model wannabe to one of 2015’s hottest faces.Her real name is  Chantelle Brown-Young

but goes by Winnie Harlow. 

 

Vitiligo is known to be a skin disease that causes pigment to disappear, resulting in white patches on the skin. This weekend, Harlow picked up the Beauty Idol gong at German magazine Gala’s Spa Awards 2015 in Baden Baden.  

According to reports, the disease began to manifest when she was 4 years old. It first appeared on her stomach, then affected her face and hands.

 

The stunner doesn’t see her patchy skin as an advantage — or disadvantage and has taking the fashion world by storm. She recently walked for Desigual at New York Fashion Week. The model describes herself as a ‘vitiligo spokesperson’ on her Instagram page, which has 627,000 followers. We wudn't be surprised if we saw her on the cover of leasing fashion magazines.