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Sports Illustrated Model Tanaye White Talks Diversity, Anxiety, & Overcoming Suicidal Thoughts

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🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After quitting her job to pursue modeling full time, Tanaye White entered the 2020 SI Swimsuit model search where she was chosen to the Top 16 out of thousands of applicants! Tanaye is also an outspoken advocate for diversity and mental health. She opens up about her past battles with depression and anxiety, as well as her feelings about diversity & inclusion in the modeling industry and our greater society.

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a deer media production.

0:03.0

It's different when you're black and you are looking on a magazine shelf and you may see

0:13.9

one cover of a person that looks like you or even if you're flipping through any magazine

0:18.3

for that matter, you can do that till this day.

0:21.1

The predominant of people you will see do not look like you.

0:24.3

It's something that's sort of ingrained into you at a young age even when you're going to

0:27.7

pick out makeup shades.

0:29.3

A lot of times I would not have my foundation available, just simply because they did not

0:35.2

provide it or maybe they did not provide enough of it because they didn't expect people

0:39.7

of my color to purchase it, stuff like that.

0:42.1

You just, it's built into you very young.

0:44.4

So what I love about today's age is that we use social media to sort of share our grievances

0:51.2

as well as our appreciation.

0:53.4

So when a brand comes out and they have this new foundation line or concealer line and

0:58.6

it's literally 10 shades of beige and then two are for darker skin.

1:04.1

You are allowed to communicate that and I love also the conversations we're having around

1:08.0

diversity.

1:09.0

What it means to be diverse is not just having one person of this shade, one person of that

1:13.4

background.

1:14.4

It's about actually showing the range and the spectrum of what it means to just be a person.

1:26.3

Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod.

1:28.6

I'm Victoria Garrick, former Dio and athlete and mental health and body image advocate.

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