weight on your left foot okay. i've never really fit into any mold or any group. i've heard it all like you're not somali enough you're not a good must live you're not american and not. i have multiple identities multiple things that make me who i am. that's what makes me me. nine easy thing to be when

the world wants you to be like one thing or the other. i young somebody america colicky sticking the fashion industry by told a dan is the only job wearing mortal signed by a major morning agency to st. bridget she makes for a girl who was once a great. she is not closing question. trucking one week i'm looking. this cannot be my life . go. okay one

of. laughing. thank you thank you sir perfect restated done done. easy so i was thinking what is the address will be cool to do you like some stuff and moves everything happening in new york it's like february right but then it it literally. goes new york london malign. paris boom boom boom four weeks in a row. and they're back to back. and i don't know what will be a part of the mind of the part of anything but

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the soviet times this week. him because the window my man willing to savannah just ahead. that have german in high and into her little. th. so if you ask me what i talk about when i'm at school. i'll give is back to the knees we have lots of opportunities that come out of the fact that she's such a good speaker now and people want that story as you build a name for yourself. it opens up of the kind of the opportunity to build a business out of it model a model of the. mother i'm of the mind. one to go look a little cement oil hi way money from them when my son just like how it. progress you know for us on the go button.

on the left has the locust hunt carson idea. i think all of those things that we are spreading out into can ultimately come something that's full time because modeling isn't going to always be. it's the. lower model it's like everything perfect yeah i can. they don't like the word they don't get the word. the only okay well how did i miss. they did come in food new. mon on i saw a- doctor and what to

do on the job and as an added. unisom militia play. close up we've gotten to know so hey monkey on duncan's sold what. happy why had like in happy he at the same time because- i doubt about happened outside of going at the end of the day i do you then walk with the black one has some kinda. liking and i hasten family giggled before the phone really what. his thing you know had. had did a house where. how do you walk by. yes i really i'm dying. hey i didn't. how's. but i want to see what. thank god mapping it out you know. why don't. we do this thing. yeah i mean i already knew where she stood with on the whole i mean that really have you know you're. doing modeling. i'm

gonna excuse myself. i think in all like all groups somebody has to go out and be the first to know that's not a bad thing is just. it's not easy. okay did you. ladies and gentlemen welcome to the twenty seventh. the title of miss. no my roommate. you don't know. like twelve time i never sit down with him and then. the niece wallis. there is. you can pass.

he didn't. i've put myself in this position so other people can see our human side but with that also comes a lot of responsibilities. i know on the one long stuff it can potentially change how a lot of parents the girls . what i can. one of the. so what what. yeah.

the. so this girl sign i love you and support you so much but i just wanted to warn you that u shouldn't weatight clothes because i shows your body and that is not part of the head job this is just advice from someone who wants thbest for you. hello to you. thank you so much for caring enough. to date on me. but modesty as a personal preference. and i really blank the address going down. welcome to the saudi museum of minnesota. that's the guests.

this is a song on it transaction press event to someone woman. all my gosh more someone events. that's how the voice. all my gosh i remember this yes this is only an additional hi. our first call was actually. half of this and if it three people. this is actually like luxury this is a must of bird flu in the family. yeah a lot of like the younger generation because we were born in the post us from all the r. our families have fled by the time we are bored so none of us really have much recollection of somalia or memories there because we've never been. i want to go back yeah that's on my checklist. at i'm more. and

this one like. for the. election yeah. when you offense so even if your strides take a little longer. don't out run your feet one of the priorities that i have during the week is that she is. able to walk at least in one showyou're in charge. enjoy that moment last season there was a lot of interest unfortunately they couldn't figure out a way to meet. that clothing instruction. yeah that be the only thing i'd change it was good but you

just. yeah five we will open again options since this is winter fall clothing and. you know a little bit easier probably to work with the clothes. i love new york i love the environment i love the hassles. everything's fast pace different in minnesota . cation not. i might have been the first inside the high fashion model i don't know if it's just

a trend in that state. there's a million other girls. so you have to take the initiative and the like. for here. he's . so are you walk like an- yeah . yeah. so. they narrow that

casting down tomorrow okay. one four yeah. yeah. should we go straight estimate for. we still don't have a shell books and confirm but we're still here. well i for one rejection is worse than the other. it's just sometimes when it's stuff that i can't control like my height i can grow six inches i know that you know. there is none

to looat you know somebody i can ference . thank you. i would love to see myself like doingore catwk it reinforces your spot in the industry like okay you're a high fashion model that's why you wake up you do everything to get to that point. to be. there . random crap. okay okay.

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backseat. i mean this is one of those shows during new york fashion week. literally out of this world. would you want to go . three two one. that was by

far the longest right away i have ever done in my life. in one side of my family okay. and then also it's very important to know exactly where to walk the left one wrong turn in my mind so that robot. but it's also about okay i have this incredible opportunity to represent my community to like show people this is a new face i feel like i would be doing a

huge disservice to myself and to. all the little girls that are looking up to me if i didn't make this the most that i can. everyone my name is denise small camera in your state director. i promise not to teach you any choreography i will be. yeah. behind aing on steering precision x.eople when they see you. they left that. thank you. on the oer hand chose to be here please once done this i promise you yo will be a songer and better version. of you then

takes out you would never work. here. find. there's a total of eight so my girls to see. a lot of people never thought to do a pageant and with the job but all they say like you know now they see it nothing stopping them and- it's great. all your. i don't know i don't i.

everyone i mean yeah. financing something that exactly one year ago i did the pageant. last year it was really difficult. my mom didn't understand it and it was a big no from my community. and then they saw that i didn't change last minute onstage and they're off my job. so now i see parents like supporting their daughters to go do pageants. but my mom she doesn't agree with. i'm never gonna see it don't understand where she's coming from as i get it. i've always. make you want me to stop i'll stop. she is allowed to make this choice for myself. i just

can't believe like how much my mom has changed how accepting she's become. this is actually very supportive she's so happy for the other girls. i know it's not easy for her but the fact that she's sitting here with me like it just goes to show you like how much she really cares. we would like to have a special young lady present this next award she stood onhis ver stage as a contestant last year. she is an example of h the catcher provides a. easily spread a powerful message we welcome. in a letter. hello yes. ed mccabe's stay out the is fun to open all that. yeah can she a

model in on another walk in high. the more because i know how just like the kind of. four thirty on someone like malaysia walks over. what what also melinda that. i am a customer you'll be. walk a sub head head to the left. madam adult can it will go down could not connect. what can you monday but i can kind of money will call for him to come in i can. get money so that the will of the- of the tuna to. mcchrystal how could dead we. see in a look at the come come up with a dull colorful. who. i know when i do go back that's because of her .

yeah. sorry this is not like i was born here. here i like. meanwhile competency. if i was back in the refugee camp. i know i would have appreciated someone coming back and just telling me. okay i was a kid here but now i'm doing this. it hasn't been an easy path.

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