00:00I had to remember my beauty did not belong to the masses, it did not belong to people
00:24to represent their brands.
00:26I stopped modeling because I remembered that my ancestors were the original artists, that
00:31we were the artists where there was a paintbrush, that the faces belonged with my ancestors,
00:37that every museum you go to, when we took side profile pictures, it was sacred.
00:43We weren't vain.
00:44We didn't use beauty the same way they use it.
00:47They look at our beauty for something to extract, our skin color, our features.
00:52It's like we're just some exotic fruit, but we're not exotic fruits.
00:56We are queens.
00:57We are kings.
00:58And that's why they study us till this day.
01:00So I refuse.
01:01So that's why I decided to model for my own things, the things that represent my ancestors.
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