I'm Liyomi Anderson, International Model Activist and Entrepreneur.

And this is role model, my brand new podcast, and I'm on a mission to sit down with the

superstars we know and love and ask them the questions others don't dare to ask.

As we discussed, you are the queen of reinvention when it comes to looks.

I'm always seeing you experimenting with your looks, experimenting with your style, which

I love.

But I know in the early stages of being a model, you don't necessarily have control over

your image.

And especially as black girls, I feel like we go through it when we first begin, because

we feel like we can't really say anything.

So I kind of want to talk about your experiences early on within the modeling industry and how

you feel things have changed for you now.

So earlier on, exactly same thing.

I didn't want to say anything.

I felt like any time I did say something, it was like, I was dramatic or what's the word?

You know, like trying to be a queen.

They love calling us a diva.

Just because we want our hair to look just as nice as the white girls on the runway, there's

no problem with that.

There's no problem.

And there's no problem with me letting you know that my hair is not going to lay down flatter

if you add water to it.

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