*Supermodel Jourdan Dunn admits she has body insecurities like so many other women.
The 29-year-old Caribbean beauty graces the cover of Vogue U.K. for the November issue, and she tells the publication that her slim frame never matched with the rest of her family.
“Being Caribbean, everybody in my family has curves. My mum is curvy, my cousins,” Dunn said. “Then seeing music videos…being at home and pretending I’m a video girl, then realizing I can’t be a video girl because I ain’t got that to be backing it up, but, whatever, I’m going to still shake it! That was definitely a thing.”
At one point, she felt so insecure about her “chicken legs” that she considered getting plastic surgery.
“When I was younger, I was actually thinking of having calf implants,” Dunn confessed.
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Meanwhile, Dunn said being a young model “growing up in the industry and having your insecurities get you jobs” definitely highlighted her self-esteem struggles.
In 2008, she became the first Black model to walk a Prada show in 10 years. In 2015, her first-ever British Vogue cover dropped, marking the publication’s first solo Black cover model in 12 years, per E! News. Now she’s an advocate for Black women in the industry and she’s made it her mission to call out the lack of diversity and racism.
“I just said what was on my mind,” Dunn said. “I did start feeling like a lone voice because I felt like, ‘I’m being vocal and my peers are being silent.’ I was like, ‘I don’t want to talk about this anymore. Why am I the only one? You’re going through the same thing. You look like me.’ ”
She has also found solidarity on social media.
“Everybody comes together and backs each other now. It’s not just one person,” she continues. “What I love about this generation is that everyone’s so fearless and everyone has a voice – people are not gonna let things slide anymore. I don’t believe that it can go backwards, because people won’t allow it.”
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