“Hello everyone, I’m Kimberly, I’m 15. My dream is to go to university and ultimately become a journalist and prove that people with disabilities can be successful,in life. I would love to become an ambassador for the positive promotion of and raising of awareness of albinism through my modelling. In the past I had an internal conflict with myself and my albinism. Despite my mum’s best attempts to educate me and bring me up as a black child I rejected this and identified myself as white. I struggled with role models as I was idolising white pop stars etc causing me to dislike my body shape and cause confusion over my identity. Over time, I have learnt to embrace my albinism and the uniqueness it gives me. I now accept I am a black young woman who has a lack of pigmentation that causes me to appear white! Over the past few years my mindset has changed in as much as I am proud of my albinism and feel that it is influencing my life in a positive way.”