Canadian fashion model Chantelle Whitney Brown-Young, known professionally as Winnie Harlow shared the adorable photo with her 8.3 million Instagram followers posing with a cute dog she claims to have lent from a neighbour.
“When you become a dog mom, you join a secret dog community where neighbours lend you their dogs to take cool pics, the 26-year-old model captioned the photos.”
Winnie Harlow was diagnosed with the chronic skin condition vitiligo, characterized by depigmentation of portions of the skin, at the age of four.
Harlow was a victim of bullying by other children and was reportedly called a “cow, zebra, and all manner of other disparaging slurs” throughout her childhood by students both black and white. The verbal harassment led to her changing schools numerous times and dropping out of high school, after which she contemplated committing suicide.
Harlow was discovered by America’s Next Top Model host Tyra Banks on Instagram, and subsequently became one of the fourteen finalists of the twenty-first cycle in 2014.
