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• ‟ I think that the plus-size industry has been great with size diversity, but it hasn't really been great for skin tone diversity.

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• ‟ Growing up, I had body confidence issues, not really so much because of size but my skin color. I had trouble recognizing that the depth of my skin tone is really beautiful because whenever people referred to a beautiful black-skinned woman, you'd see Beyonce and Rihanna.

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• ‟ When I started, there was only one other girl that I could name that was even close to my shade. I didn't understand why there weren't more black plus-size models with darker skin tones. It feels like the final frontier of beauty is to be black, to be plus, to have natural hair.

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• ‟ There's not many models in the U.S. that have my depth - like, really dark skin - that are also plus size. Skin color has been one of those things we haven't really, really addressed on a large, widespread scale.

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• ‟ Magazines don't go far enough to be inclusive and have at least have one model representing every major skin tone.

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• ‟ Much noise has been about size diversity but not enough about skin tone diversity. It's time for this to change.

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• ‟ For me, diverse beauty is an affirmation of every single person in his or her own skin.

  - Philomena Kwao