Twelve years ago, former Victoria’s Secret model Cameron Russell stepped onto the Ted Talk stage to deliver a speech about the hollowness of beauty. Her honesty and critique of an industry built on whiteness and thinness were quickly dismissed by many as self-victimisation - a reaction that proved her point. When a woman is visibly beautiful, any attempt to challenge the system that benefits her is treated as ingratitude or arrogance, as if her face disqualifies her from having an analysis.

Models took the hint - clamming up when anyone braced the subject of pretty privilege or mental health in the industry. Regardless of how honestly they tackled the question, they simply couldn’t win.

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That was until three years later, when in 2015, Charli Howard pe

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