“When I was a child, I just wanted to be something normal like an accountant—I’m really good at math. But then, I got scouted by Dominique Savri in my hometown in the south of France, and she told me that I had to go to Paris and try modeling. I’m 20 now and sometimes I miss being in school—I tried to do a year by correspondence course but it was too hard with all of the traveling. I’ll go back to school eventually, but right now I’m going to focus on this because it’s all happening so quickly.
Last year I came to New York for the first time. One morning, I went to meet with the casting director for Calvin Klein and then I got a call from my agency telling me the rest of my castings were canceled for that day. I thought I’d done something wrong! But it was because Calvin Klein booked me on exclusive. I was the first black girl to do that with them, so it really was an honor. It’s not easy for black girls—everybody knows that. There are usually only three of us in a show at most. I never felt like I had to fight anything because of the color of my skin—it’s my skin, and I can’t change its color. But it’s also not easy because they only have a couple of spots for girls who are black. And then you wonder if they picked you because you are black. But I think it’s changing, and I’m happy to represent that.
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