Chantelle Brown-Young

Chantelle’s mom, Lisa Brown who lives outside Toronto but who has roots in Trelawny and Clarendon in Jamaica told The Gleaner in an exclusive story that her daughter had more than her fair share of challenges while growing up due to the vitiligo. “Chantelle is a sweet, beautiful, outgoing teenager and while she was being abused, I didn’t stop praying that God would help me to find a way”, she said.
The prayers were eventually answered. After changing schools and heading in the wrong direction with the wrong company for a while, Chantelle suddenly realised that she was really in control of her destiny, but only if she was prepared to radically change the way she saw herself. So instead of blaming vitiligo for her woes, she began embracing her flaw, while at the same time pushing back the negative energies and the negative people who surrounded her.
With her new attitude, she soon discovered that the world wasn’t such a bad place after all, and a flood of new opportunities started to come her way, including photo shoots, magazine spreads and her eventual selection as a finalist or the 21st season of America’s Next Top Model contest.