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A Model With Down Syndrome Fulfills Her New York Fashion Week Dream
Marian Avila, a 21-year-old Spanish model with Down syndrome, fulfilled her dream to walk at New York Fashion Week thanks to an Atlanta designer she met through the magic of social media.
And she did it with flair Saturday in the ballroom of a Midtown hotel in evening looks of red and gold, her parents and siblings in the audience and other models who have challenges by her side.
“I felt really happy and I really loved the runway,” Avila said through a translator after the Saturday show. “I wanted to show the world that there are no barriers.”
No barriers for women of all kinds is Talisha White’s mission, as a designer focused on prom, pageant and special occasion outfits and as an active pageant contestant as well.
A model White knew had stumbled on a story about Avila’s fashion week dream online. She told White of Avila’s quest and they reached out to Avila on Facebook.
“She’s been a busy supermodel, meeting with all types of people,” White said of the attention Avila and her dream have received in the United States, her home country and across Europe. “I’m very glad for her. She’s been meeting with Vogue. She’s been meeting with Harper’s Bazaar. She’s been meeting in different showrooms, different modeling agencies.”
Avila is from the Benidorm area, in the province of Alicante in eastern Spain on the Mediterranean coast. She was accompanied by her parents and siblings. At home, she said, “I practice every day,” referring to her love of modeling.
“I’m studying modeling and to become an actress,” Avila said.
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Instagram Model Accidentally Kills Herself During Filming Of Viral Video
A 35 year old Russian Instagram Super Model dies after getting into an accident while filming a video story.
The video shows the woman, who’s only wearing bikini bottoms hanging out of the window in a moving car when she’s struck by a road sign.
The incident took place while she was on vacation in the Dominican Republic.
Watch the video here: http://southlandpost.com/instagram-model-accidentally-kills-herself-during-filming-of-viral-video/
Shark attacks California Instagram model in Bahamas
“I am so fortunate that I still have my arm and my life.”
Katarina Zarutskie was floating calmly in the ocean off the Bahamas’ Staniel Cay when she suddenly felt her arm being yanked down.
Zarutskie, a 19-year-old nursing student and Instagram model from Laguna Beach, California, had been swimming with nurse sharks when one bit her arm and started to drag her under the water last month. Her boyfriend’s father took several photos throughout the attack, capturing the exact moment that Zarutskie came in contact with the 5-foot-long shark.
“He had my wrist in his mouth and I could feel his teeth sinking into my arm,” Zarutskie told NBC News on Monday. “I was pulled underwater for a few seconds and then ripped my wrist out of the shark’s mouth as fast as I could.”
When she got free of the shark’s bite, she swam to some steps — holding her bleeding arm out of the water to not tempt more sharks — and got out of the ocean.
Zarutskie, who attends the University of Miami, had been on vacation with her boyfriend and his family and had heard from locals that swimming with nurse sharks was a fun and safe activity. She did not swim with the sharks through a tour company or any organization that required payment, but, having grown up as a surfer in Southern California, she said she was not afraid to jump in the water near a marina.
“My boyfriend’s family was freaking out when I went to swim with the sharks and I was like, ‘it’s fine,'” she said.
According to David Hocher, who owns Staniel Cay marina, people do get bitten from time to time while around the sharks.
“These animals are considered quite docile but can and do bite on occasion,” Hocher wrote in an email. “Normally when they mistake a hand or fingers for a piece of food.”
Hocher sent NBC News a picture of a sign at the marina that warns guests that nurse sharks “can and do bite” and that visitors must “swim with the sharks at your own risk” — but Zarutskie said she did not see the sign.
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A Kardashian Takes Another Inappropriate Photo (It’s Khloe This Time)
Khloe Kardashian posed in a photo shoot with a Black fashion model, Slick Woods, as part of an advertising campaign for the Kardashian’s clothing line: Good American Outfits. It is reported that the other pictures were decent, but the internet came together to deem this picture below as… (surprise) racist.
Khloe is pictured here looking down, lovingly, at her pet that is clutching her ivory thigh.
Here, Khloe is pictured looking down at Slick Woods, who is crouched around Khloe’s leg.
The picture seems to be reminiscent of slave children, under a Stockholm Syndrome spell, curled up around a slave master’s feet. At this point, I am not too sure whether or not this was done on purpose because even though the picture seems innocent enough, you would think that with all the (racist) controversy they have been involved in, the Kardashian Klan’s PR person would steer them clear of disrespecting the Ancestors, but no.
Here lies yet another Kardshian racist incident for The Big Book of Receipts.
Please note that this article is written by DayaLys and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of Lovelyti.
Share your thoughts below: is this picture in poor taste or do you think the internet reads too much into things?
Via: http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/the-internet-isnt-too-pleased-with-this-photo-of-khloe-kardashian-slick-woods#axzz4umr3LzHD