We all have our fair share of teenage insecurities, and in the case of 17-year-old Natalia Castellar, it’s her noticeably thick set of eyebrows.
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“When I was younger they were all anyone would point out,” Natalia tells W Magazine, and she opens up about how badly it affected her to the point that she almost shaved them. “I was bullied terribly because of how thick and long they were, so I wanted to shave them down. One day I was about to shave them until my mom interrupted me,” she reveals. And it was a good thing she listened to her mom, because otherwise she might not have landed her dream job.
The Puerto Rican beauty, who previously posed for Mansur Gavriel and NARS, has just recently signed a modeling contract with Next Model Management, one of the biggest and most successful modeling agencies in the world also representing the likes of Abbey Lee Kershaw, Suki Waterhouse, and Alexa Chung.
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“I’ve wanted to model since I was nine, when I started watching America’s Next Top Model,” says Natalia. “I was so in love with the idea of being able to dress-up, travel everywhere, and take on different personas for different types of shoots. I hope that I continue to get these amazing opportunities, because I feel like I have something to offer!”
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And as for her bold, bushy brows? The young model says she has finally learned to embrace her “trademark” look. She shares, “It wasn’t until thick brows started trending that I started feeling more confident, [but] now I don’t care if they stay trendy or not. I love my eyebrows! I wish I have embraced them sooner.”
Remember her name, because this model-on-the-rise might just give Cara Delevingne a run for her money.
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