Diesel’s New Campaign Stars Stunning Model With Vitiligo, Proving Bullies Can’t Ever Bring Her Down — thegloss.com

Well, fashion industry, you continue to surprise and delight me: Chantelle Winnie, a Canadian model who lives with the skin condition vitiligo, is starring in Diesel’s spring/summer 2015 ad campaign. When Chantelle was four years old, a large patch of white skin developed on her stomach. A visit to the doctor confirmed that she had vitiligo, an autoimmune condition in which the body’s immune system begins to attack the cells that produce melanin (the pigment that determines skin color). The melanin-producing cells eventually die off, and the person is left with patches of white skin on various parts of their body.

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