cape verde and model, raquel pinto was 19 years old when she started her career. she remembers it as if it were yesterday that sunny day at the beach, when a stranger approached her with an invitation to a boy jim up to me and said, my cousin wants to talk to you because he's a photographer and thinks it could be a model you know, then i said, no, i'm not going. i mean, what is this strange person comes up and tells me he wants to take pictures of me. so the, so i didn't want to use this view. but then he showed me magazines for me and the job. he's already done for many international magazines and brands of them. i talked to my mother and she allowed me to get some photos taken issue. i did it list. mine took my thoughts as to power to put them in a magazine. and the french modeling agency and lead models said it was interested in working with me. i always models but it's not always easy. the cape verde and reveals that she has to face many challenges i think that in my modeling, but as a black woman, i had to india differences in the treatment or evaluation of t