But it was only when the 21-year-old Australian-Sudanese model decided to make the move to New York that her career truly took off, recently describing the experience of being an out-of-work black model in Australia as a "mindf**k". Thank you ❤️ A post shared by Duckie Thot (@duckieofficial) on Sep 16, 2017 at 11:40am PDT"I didn't understand why, but I wasn't getting any work," Thot told PAPER magazine's Michael Cuby. I was just this little [black] girl in Australia just being like, 'Oh yeah, I want to do modelling', but [while also] being in a country that doesn't promote black models. "The owner of one of the major modelling agencies, Pricilla's, said it was very sad but they often have to turn away a beautiful black model or beautiful Asian model," she said. 🦄🦄🦄 A post shared by Duckie Thot (@duckieofficial) on Sep 9, 2017 at 8:02am PDT"They have to tell her the beautiful truth that she just won't find full-time work in Australia and it's not worth her while.

Source: Huffington Post September 18, 2017 02:26 UTC