Model with cystic acne branded 'pizza face' now earns £790k embracing bare skin

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exclusively opened up about how she used to struggle with cystic acne – but now has a $1 million(£796,000) company from learning to her embrace skin.Cassandra Bankson, from California, US, dreamt of looking like the models that filled the glossy pages of magazines when she was young.But after being the target of cruel bullies making jibes about her skin texture, she felt that she would never be seen as “beautiful” .However, after the 29-year-old learned how to cover her ‘flaws’ under the guise of layers of makeup and mastered tricks on editing suites she soon found her confidence.She worked across the US booking modelling jobs on runways and even featured in adverts in American beauty store, Ulta.Despite proving the bullies wrong, Cassandra did not feel like she was being true to herself by covering up her skin.Now having quit the industry for a multitude of reasons, the babe is now a self-love influencer and medical aesthetician who wants to help others embrace their natural skin.Boasting two million YouTube subscribers and 200,000 Instagram followers, Cassandra often posts before and after snaps of edited photos to show just how easy it is to be fooled by modelling shots.The online star shared how she managed to build up her own company on the back of her once insecurity and has now helped others accept their own skin.Cassandra told us: “It was something [modelling] that I never thought was possible for me.

Growing up being bullied and called 'pizza face' and a 'walking infection', I never imagined that I could be seen as beautiful.“When I first went to aesthetic school in 2009 and learned to cover my acne with layers of makeup and professional techniques, I was able to create a canvas that (with the help of Photoshop.