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Bullied For Her Thick Brows, This Teenager Is Now a Model

Wear your flaws like armour

Posted on

15 November 2016

Natalia Castellar Calvani

image credit: Natalia Castellar Calvani/ Instagram

As a child, she was relentlessly bullied for her thick brows. A few years forward, her brows became her trademark and helped her land a modelling contract!

Meet Natalia Castellar, the 17-year-old who can teach all of us a little about self-acceptance. Throughout her childhood, this Puerto Rican stunner faced criticism, disapproval and ridicule because of her bushy eyebrows. The bullying she faced was so bad that at one point she was going to shave her eyebrows off - only to be stopped by her mother.

"When I was younger they were all anyone would point out...Now I don't care if they stay trendy or not, I love my eyebrows" she said in an interview with W magazine. With the help of her photographer sister, Natalia gained an impressive following on Tumblr and Instagram and eventually earned a contract with NEXT Models. The teenager recently scored jobs with NARS and Mansur Gavriel, her first two major brands.

You go, girl!

Just like any aspiring model, Castellar is excited to travel and work. She describes herself as somebody who is content when they're doing something. But despite her success, the bullying doesn’t end.
Her trademark brows are still trolled online but she doesn’t care what people think.

Check out some of her striking snaps on Instagram where is posing some serious competition for Cara Delevingne.