10 Inspiring Models Who have Challenged Beauty Standards!

10 Inspiring Models Who have Challenged Beauty Standards!

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10. Ashley Graham

The American model Ashley Graham has proved that size might not matter in the modeling industry. She has been feature in many magazines such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Glamour. Not only has she spoken about body acceptance and confidence at high schools, she also participates in humanitarian mission with the Themba Foundation.

9. Nyakim Gatwech

Born in South Sudan, Nyakim Gatwech has been an inspirational figure to many. With more than 208K followers on Instagram, the dubbed ‘Queen of Dark” uses it to post about body positivity and encourages fans to embrace their bodies and skin color and self acceptance.

8. Jillian Mercado

Born April 30, 1987 in New York City, Jillian Mercado was diagnosed at a young age with spastic muscular dystrophy and was in wheelchair by the age of 3. When she first started thinking seriously about becoming a model, she searched the web for someone in the modeling world who looked like her, only for the results to come up empty.

7. Alex Minsky

Alex Minsky is a retired Marine Corporal, 28 year old model. After hitting a bomb while on his first tour of Afghanistan in 2009. He spent days in a coma because of a brain injury and had his right leg amputated. After the death of his brother due to drug overdose, Minskey himself entered a long period of abusing drugs.

6. Andreja Pejic

Born in Australia, Andreja Pejic is a 25 year old Australian model. She was the first completely androgynous supermodel. Also, she’s one of the world’s most famous transgender models.

She was scouted while working at Mcdonald’s. Pejic was ranked on the models.com’s Top 50 Models list, as well as appeared on catwalks and in magazines. She is also the world’s first transgender model profiled by Vogue.

5. Madeline Stuart

Upon visiting a fashion show with her mother in 2014, Madeline decided she wanted to become a model. Since then, she has been described as the world’s first professional model with Down syndrome. She has launched her own clothing label called 21 Reasons Why.

4. Jamie Brewer

Jamie Brewer, aged 32, is an actress and a model. She was the first woman with Down syndrome to walk down a catwalk at New York Fashion Week in February of 2015. She was also the youngest person to be elected President of the ARC of Fort Bent Chapter.

3. Winnie Harlow

Chantelle Brown-Young, known as Winnie Harlow, was born on July 27, 1994 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At the age of four, she was diagnosed with vitiligo, chronic skin condition, characterized by depigmentation of portions of the skin. Because of that, she was a victim of bullying that led her to change schools multiple times and dropping out of him eventually and even contemplating suicide.

2. Shaun Ross

Shaun Ross is a 26 years old American model. He is known as being the first male albino model. He is of African-American descent and had to deal with discrimination for being albino throughout his life.

1. Melanie Gaydos

Melanie, an art graduate in New York City, responded to a Craigslist ad asking for unique people to fashion photographers to shoot. Due to a rare genetic disorder called ectodermal dysplasia, which has prevented her teeth, pores, nails, cartilage and bones from developing. Gaydos also has alopecia. She is partially blind, after the growth of her eyelashes scratched her eyes. She has rejected enhancements like dentures and wigs.

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