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Like, this is going to open the door for so many girls from my community. i d never got to experience flipping through a magazine and seeing somebody in a hijab, somebody i could relate to, so to be that person for other girls wasjust a dream come true. but, you know, the last two years especially, i ve been having so much internal conflict with the other hijab wearing models coming up to me. and even what i saw, i was on a shoot once and there was another muslim hijab wearing girl, and so they gave me my box and they told her to go find a bathroom to change in. and so when i saw that we weren t being treated equally, like, that never sat well with me. i totally understand that, and even though i m - disappointed you left. the industry, for selfish reasons, i understand it completely. - do you think it was a wake up call for the industry? ....
And there was another muslim hijab wearing girl, and so they gave me my box and they told her to go find a bathroom to change in. and so when i saw that we weren t being treated equally, like, that never sat well with me. i totally understand that, and even though i m - disappointed you left. the industry, for selfish reasons, i understand it completely. - do you think it was a wake up call for the industry? i do. i think it was a wake up call for the industry- because i think other brandsl and other designers would be saying what did we do wrong? and i m surprised more models have not been vocal about it. because there s been a lot of abuse and a lot of, - i would say, disrespect in the fashion industryl between photographers and models. i really hope if i did anything the last four years is to give models the opportunity to know that they can speak up. i felt great pressure being the first muslim, ....
Paper all over the place. unbelievable the amounts of paper. i told the people, i arrived early, keep away from the windows and stuff like that. you could see the debris was heavy. then i decided, something was wrong. that it was time for me to leave. so i told the woman that was in charge of the institute at that time that, you know, i m leaving. i think you should evacuate the whole floor. she had a whistle for fire and things like that. she started blowing the whistle. she told everybody to go down the floor. neil: not everyone was evacuating, right? your gut was right. what were you being told to do in the building or the intercom system? we weren t being told to do anything at that particular point. we got down to the i got down ....