Winnie Harlow becomes the first ever model with vitiligo to pose for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue has offered another sneak peak at who's set to appear in the 2019 edition, this time with a series of very sexy pictures of model Winnie Harlow.

Winnie, 24, appears in a handful of Instagram videos posted by the magazine, posing up a storm in a series of barely-there swimsuits at her shoot in the Bahamas. Her shoot marks the first time a model with vitiligo has appeared in the magazine.

She's walked the runway for Marc Jacobs, Coach, Julien Macdonald, Desigual, Moschino, Prabal Gurung, and others. She's shot campaigns for Diesel, Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, and Desigual, appeared in numerous fashion magazines, and also starred in Beyonce's Lemonade.

The former America's Next Top Model contestant also made her Victoria's Secret Fashion Show debut this year.

She 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.

Now she is doing the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated.

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