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'I was bullied in school having ginger afro – so shaved my head and tattooed it'

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Instagram followers – is now a model who works for Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty lingerie line.And it was the Grammy Award-winning singer who inspired a young Chanel to shave her head over a decade ago.She explained: “Rihanna was a massive idol of mine and when she started doing shaved sides and back to her hair I took inspiration.“I thought ‘why not?’ So I decided to shave it all off and I looked in the mirror and thought ‘what have I done?’“It was my choice and I like to make an impact by the way I look and to go against what society says is beautiful.”And she added: “I have never grown it back since.

Anyone in Bristol, if you ask do they know Chanel, and if they don’t you just say 'the bald tattoo girl' and they will say ‘oh yea I know her’.”Not just satisfied with her bald head, Chanel went further by getting it tattooed.Explaining why, she said: “I’ve got a big following of women going through alopecia or they are going through chemotherapy.“Anyone I know in Bristol, any of their friends who are women and are going through hair loss will message me and I will show them different ways to style it etc.“I remember seeing online a few years ago and this artist in the States going to alopecia parties and cancer wards and she would pen these crowns on their heads.“I saw that, and me being the most extreme person, I went and got it tattooed.”Chanel added: “I wear it very proudly and it is a very empowering thing.

I know that no matter where I am, no matter what room I walk into, there is nobody who will look like me.” Earlier this month Chanel became unrecognisable after a transformation where she had all her tattoos removed left her looking like her mum.

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