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17-Year-Old Bullied For Her Thick Eyebrows Lands Massive Modeling Jobs
17-Year-Old Bullied For Her Thick Eyebrows Lands Massive Modeling Jobs
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Natalia Castellar was mocked as a youngster by other children for her thick, dark eyebrows, but now the 17-year-old has shut down her haters after landing a modeling job.

“When I was younger they were all anyone would point out. I was bullied terribly because of how thick and long they were, so I wanted to shave them down,” Natalia said. However, she managed to turn a blind eye to all the hate and her new attitude gained an impressive following on social media, which earned Castellar a contract with NEXT Models, which is listed as one of the top modeling agencies in the world.

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    “When I was younger [my eyebrows] were all anyone would point out,” says 17-year-old Natalia

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    “I was bullied terribly because of how thick and long they were”

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    Natalia even wanted to shave her eyebrows

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    “Now I don’t care if they stay trendy or not, I love my eyebrows”

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    Her confident new attitude got Natalia a contract with NEXT Models

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    And she already posed for NARS and Mansur Gavriel

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    “They’re my trademark, and I wish I would have embraced them sooner”

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    Natalia is very excited about her upcoming career

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    “I can’t wait to travel and work. I’m the type of person that’s content when they’re constantly doing something”

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    “A lot of trolls [still] leave nasty comments about my eyebrows, but I don’t give in and respond, because that’s what they want”

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    Rokas Laurinavičius

    Rokas Laurinavičius

    Author, Senior Writer

    Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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    Violaine LB
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She looks like Frida Kahlo! Amazing. Well done to her for not caring for the haters.

    Leslie Cully
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! Gorgeous! She would've been hailed as a queen in the 80's!!!

    Đen Nguyễn
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what? why bully her? I think she's cute. probably a bunch of jealous cats

    Stille20
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The recurring them that your flaws could be your greatest asset is great, but there are soooo many stories about a bullied child who became a model on bored panda. Every child gets bullied, but getting a modeling career is not the only (or maybe even the best) way to validate your worth or even your beauty.

    Stille20
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a little too "They'll like me when I'm famous"

    Load More Replies...
    Kevin Camp
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most every model I work with and train for the industry goes through daily bullying. Do you eat? Are you sick. You are too tall. You have no figure. The hardest thing eveyry young model has to learn is to get past all the constant hating and belittling that goes on in their daily lives and embrace the diffferences that allow them to do things and go places mundane folks will never experience.

    Monkey D. Luffy
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Definitely thicker than most but pulls it off. She's gorgeous.

    Naima Ivansdóttir
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    she is drop-dead gorgeous. and anyone bullying a girl for her eyebrows well... has clearly too much time on their hands, and i'm just trying to put it nicely... blah.

    WrightsW5
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The bigger the eyebrows, the hotter the woman.

    Johan Vandervelde
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With or without themyou are a beautifull person.

    Molly
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Absolutely stunning! I can't wait to show this to my 9yr old daughter. She has a dark "unibrow" that ppl tease her about.. she has an innate confidence but sometimes wants to shave it too. She's beautiful enough that it doesn't matter, and I don't want to encourage her that it matters. She can decide when she's older. What do you girls think?

    pearl dsouza
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    at least she's got some real ones.

    Rèdiño - -
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She can be like "how's this bitches!" To those who bullied her

    Marcela Nedov
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And THAT would be so laim and something that some cave man would happy to say.

    Load More Replies...
    Alan Keating
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    This comment has been deleted.

    Gaspard K
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1/2 her eyebrows are drawn on. You can see them. I don’t believe this story at all.

    Dean H
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's gorgeous. This story highlights the fact that bullies are weak-minded people who see someone with a unique look, ability or talent, etc. and that threatens them, so they resort to bullying. An old story that keeps repeating itself, generation to generation.

    Abdelillah Diane
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beautiful naturally but please stop spoiling the pose by doing duck face even a very small one....

    Marlene
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you Natalia for having the courage to be yourself ❤

    Sidney Boling
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Am I the only one completely jealous of her eyebrows?? Like I'm swooning over here rn. Lol

    Tommy
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    TAKE THAT BULLIES!!!!!!

    Linda Engman
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Glad that she's embracing her unique style

    Lynn Lee
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The last one is way too open

    Frank
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are unusually thick, but some places consider this erotic and some consider it the norm.

    James McDonald
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do people have to be suck jack asses? This is one beautiful young lady.

    Trixie Trlb
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would anyone want to bash you for having such gorgeous eyebrows?!!! I love your eyebrows! <3 Keep at it, girl!

    Marlene Wells
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's nice that she doesn't let people's opinions affect her self esteem. Though it seems that she is being intentionally militant about it. They do distract from her otherwise exotic good looks and make her appear very masculine, but if that's what she likes she has every right. It seems strange that she would initiate attention like this article unless she just really wants attention good or bad. The first photo does make her look like she has a facial beard. She not only loves her thick busy brows she also greatly enhances them with a browser pencil.

    Jasminka Tanner
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well at least she has brows. Some of my friends are self conscious because their brows are nonexistent

    Siti Aisyah
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that real eyebrows(someone pls answer)? She's looks so beautiful and with that thick eyebrows she even looks gorgeous*.*

    Toni Tea
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The whole article is about her eyebrows. That they are real, and that she has just recently learned to like them, because she was bullied before!

    Load More Replies...
    csaclint
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She was f'ing picked on, not bullied! Suck it up buttercup, we all catch sh*t for something

    Bumblebee
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People have really lost sight of what bullying really means

    Load More Replies...
    Keanu Watson
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mindblown of how thick they are but she's beautiful!

    Mia Letica
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just felt in love with her eyebrows

    Ronald Ferreira
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    never knew about her eyebrows till she mentioned them she could be the next actress in the movie unibrow. preety girl

    Vivian Reveron-Heim
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A beautiful Frida Kahlo! Georgeous! There are women who fill in their brows to look like yours. Be proud of your brows. They are natural & amazing! Can't wait to see you on a magazine cover!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

    Caro Rizzonelli
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You worry about people being idiot about physical appearance and you get yourself into modeling... Sorry, I don't get it....

    Sandevil Sandhya
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    she look good and even beautiful with that eyebrows..

    Wilhelm Stuttgart
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Other than your eyebrows, you're pretty.

    Misaki Chan
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're probably mocking her because they are jealous and have to draw on their own eyebrows... >.>

    Herbert Nenenger
    Community Member
    9 years ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    Take that, haters ! THIS IS WHY, when you get bullied, you need to hang in there, because you never know what's around the corner ! What if she had done something drastic from all the bullying like so many kids?

    Scott Campbell
    Community Member
    9 years ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    She is pretty but her eyebrows are awful. They could easily be fixed. Anyone I've shown has said the same thing. It's one thing when it is something that can't be changed, it's another when it's something so simple to fix.

    Jonathan Eatsalot
    Community Member
    9 years ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    umm....the haters are still there. Was a modeling job supposed to silence them? Why would it? Her eyebrows are still there

    Violaine LB
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She looks like Frida Kahlo! Amazing. Well done to her for not caring for the haters.

    Leslie Cully
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! Gorgeous! She would've been hailed as a queen in the 80's!!!

    Đen Nguyễn
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what? why bully her? I think she's cute. probably a bunch of jealous cats

    Stille20
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The recurring them that your flaws could be your greatest asset is great, but there are soooo many stories about a bullied child who became a model on bored panda. Every child gets bullied, but getting a modeling career is not the only (or maybe even the best) way to validate your worth or even your beauty.

    Stille20
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a little too "They'll like me when I'm famous"

    Load More Replies...
    Kevin Camp
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most every model I work with and train for the industry goes through daily bullying. Do you eat? Are you sick. You are too tall. You have no figure. The hardest thing eveyry young model has to learn is to get past all the constant hating and belittling that goes on in their daily lives and embrace the diffferences that allow them to do things and go places mundane folks will never experience.

    Monkey D. Luffy
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Definitely thicker than most but pulls it off. She's gorgeous.

    Naima Ivansdóttir
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    she is drop-dead gorgeous. and anyone bullying a girl for her eyebrows well... has clearly too much time on their hands, and i'm just trying to put it nicely... blah.

    WrightsW5
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The bigger the eyebrows, the hotter the woman.

    Johan Vandervelde
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With or without themyou are a beautifull person.

    Molly
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Absolutely stunning! I can't wait to show this to my 9yr old daughter. She has a dark "unibrow" that ppl tease her about.. she has an innate confidence but sometimes wants to shave it too. She's beautiful enough that it doesn't matter, and I don't want to encourage her that it matters. She can decide when she's older. What do you girls think?

    pearl dsouza
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    at least she's got some real ones.

    Rèdiño - -
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She can be like "how's this bitches!" To those who bullied her

    Marcela Nedov
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And THAT would be so laim and something that some cave man would happy to say.

    Load More Replies...
    Alan Keating
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    This comment has been deleted.

    Gaspard K
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1/2 her eyebrows are drawn on. You can see them. I don’t believe this story at all.

    Dean H
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's gorgeous. This story highlights the fact that bullies are weak-minded people who see someone with a unique look, ability or talent, etc. and that threatens them, so they resort to bullying. An old story that keeps repeating itself, generation to generation.

    Abdelillah Diane
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beautiful naturally but please stop spoiling the pose by doing duck face even a very small one....

    Marlene
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you Natalia for having the courage to be yourself ❤

    Sidney Boling
    Community Member
    8 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Am I the only one completely jealous of her eyebrows?? Like I'm swooning over here rn. Lol

    Tommy
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    TAKE THAT BULLIES!!!!!!

    Linda Engman
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Glad that she's embracing her unique style

    Lynn Lee
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The last one is way too open

    Frank
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are unusually thick, but some places consider this erotic and some consider it the norm.

    James McDonald
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do people have to be suck jack asses? This is one beautiful young lady.

    Trixie Trlb
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would anyone want to bash you for having such gorgeous eyebrows?!!! I love your eyebrows! <3 Keep at it, girl!

    Marlene Wells
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's nice that she doesn't let people's opinions affect her self esteem. Though it seems that she is being intentionally militant about it. They do distract from her otherwise exotic good looks and make her appear very masculine, but if that's what she likes she has every right. It seems strange that she would initiate attention like this article unless she just really wants attention good or bad. The first photo does make her look like she has a facial beard. She not only loves her thick busy brows she also greatly enhances them with a browser pencil.

    Jasminka Tanner
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well at least she has brows. Some of my friends are self conscious because their brows are nonexistent

    Siti Aisyah
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that real eyebrows(someone pls answer)? She's looks so beautiful and with that thick eyebrows she even looks gorgeous*.*

    Toni Tea
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The whole article is about her eyebrows. That they are real, and that she has just recently learned to like them, because she was bullied before!

    Load More Replies...
    csaclint
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She was f'ing picked on, not bullied! Suck it up buttercup, we all catch sh*t for something

    Bumblebee
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People have really lost sight of what bullying really means

    Load More Replies...
    Keanu Watson
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mindblown of how thick they are but she's beautiful!

    Mia Letica
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just felt in love with her eyebrows

    Ronald Ferreira
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    never knew about her eyebrows till she mentioned them she could be the next actress in the movie unibrow. preety girl

    Vivian Reveron-Heim
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A beautiful Frida Kahlo! Georgeous! There are women who fill in their brows to look like yours. Be proud of your brows. They are natural & amazing! Can't wait to see you on a magazine cover!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

    Caro Rizzonelli
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You worry about people being idiot about physical appearance and you get yourself into modeling... Sorry, I don't get it....

    Sandevil Sandhya
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    she look good and even beautiful with that eyebrows..

    Wilhelm Stuttgart
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Other than your eyebrows, you're pretty.

    Misaki Chan
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're probably mocking her because they are jealous and have to draw on their own eyebrows... >.>

    Herbert Nenenger
    Community Member
    9 years ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    Take that, haters ! THIS IS WHY, when you get bullied, you need to hang in there, because you never know what's around the corner ! What if she had done something drastic from all the bullying like so many kids?

    Scott Campbell
    Community Member
    9 years ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    She is pretty but her eyebrows are awful. They could easily be fixed. Anyone I've shown has said the same thing. It's one thing when it is something that can't be changed, it's another when it's something so simple to fix.

    Jonathan Eatsalot
    Community Member
    9 years ago

    This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

    umm....the haters are still there. Was a modeling job supposed to silence them? Why would it? Her eyebrows are still there

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