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Mannequin Sharon Rose Benson of Haifa, Israel, by no means supposed on getting into the style world. Born to a Palestinian mom and a father of Irish-Swedish descent, she was inspired to discover a steady, safe profession. “That’s the reason there’s a joke about Arabs being medical doctors. They don’t simply select these roles,” says the 24-year-old, explaining that their careers are rooted find stability in a precarious dwelling scenario. “There’s trauma behind that stereotype.”
From a younger age, Benson felt extra inventive and expressive. “I’ve at all times gravitated towards various things and characters and dressing up,” she says. “However I didn’t know I might earn a living [modeling].” Ultimately, Benson discovered her method within the native modeling trade, first via an company after which pursuing alternatives privately by way of her social-media channels. For Benson, modeling is an act of illustration. She recollects whereas rising up that she by no means noticed anybody who seemed like her—not even within the ads of her native Arab outlets. “It appeared so far-off. If you happen to take a look at the normal advertising and marketing that Arabs do right here, they at all times deliver a Russian lady, and that’s okay,” she says. “However while you don’t have that illustration even the place you store and it’s an Arab model they usually aren’t utilizing an Arab face, you don’t see your self in that working house.”
