Nicole Williams’ modelling career has come a long way since she dreamt of making it big in New York and posing for the cover of Sports Illustrated — two things she crossed off her vision board.
The Canadian model, who is only the second model to pose for SI Swimsuit visibly pregnant, reflected on her emotional journey, telling ET Canada’s Morgan Hoffman how empowering her SI photos will one day be to her little girl, India Moon, whom she and her husband, Larry English, welcomed on January 13. “It’s so emotional because I really came a long way.
I’m Canadian. I was born in Newfoundland in this like really small town called Paradise. And I was there till I was 14,” Williams, 39, said, noting that she “wanted to have a career in modelling and TV [her] whole entire life. READ MORE: Canadian Model Nicole Williams Reveals Pregnancy On Sports Illustrated Runway “And it just wasn’t going to happen for me in Newfoundland.
And so my mom just like picked us up and moved us to Toronto where there was a better life for us so I can get an agency and do all these things,” she explained. “And so, looking back at my life and how far I’ve come and how I struggled to get there, like moving to different cities, moving to New York by myself and now finally accomplishing one of my biggest goals in my career.
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