

25K views Indian Model In Bikini Ramp At Triumph Fashion Show. “I really do get a lot of little people saying they look up to me due to the simple fact that I am creating change. Bikini Fashion Show Indian Girls In Bikini - Bikini Fashion. McLaughlin hopes her casting will help serve as inspiration for anyone who has felt excluded from the world of modeling. Yes, I’m really doing something,'” she says. When she heard the applause from the crowd, she knew it was all worth it, “that’s when I was very excited, like ‘OK. I was nervous about a lot of stuff,” she explains. In addition to specific anxieties caused by her condition, she had to deal with one of the greatest fears that any other model faces: the high-heeled shoes she wore - something she does not often do. She explains that, “One step, for an average height person, is like three steps to me.” This makes walking the runway especially daunting for McLaughlin, who says she usually does print modeling, which doesn’t require the same physical exertion. We have a lot of issues when it comes to our legs because they’re little and they didn’t grow the way they were supposed to grow,” explains McLaughlin. “When we walk long distances, our legs hurt really bad. It can make everyday tasks especially challenging and, in some cases, painful.

People with the condition are born with shortened limbs. McLaughlin was born with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism.

Where once, until recently, it was reserved for those that physically represented the idealized standards of human beauty, now it is viewed as being representative of all. One could say that the very concept of modeling is being redefined. It wasn’t easy for her, not physically and not mentally: “I had like an anxiety attack,” she tells Yahoo Life. You can just be yourself, and whoever accepts you accepts you”. Swimsuit modeling has always been the gold standard of the industry, reserved for only the most alluring, but now it is being “democratized.” As she says, “”You don’t have to be tall to be a model. McLaughlin made her debut with Naava Swim on Friday, and the experience was as exhilarating as it was nerve-wracking.
