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Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model - Cameron Russell

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Cameron Russell admits she won “a genetic lottery”: she's tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don't judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry look at the industry that had her looking highly seductive at barely 16-years-old.

What did the study by an NYU Ph.D. student in 2007 find about ethnicity on the runway? What do these findings say about representation in the modeling world in general?

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