TED TALKS: Looks aren't everything

This Ted Talks is lead by Cameron Russell, which has been a model for almost 10 years. She starts saying that she thinks the appearance and image of a person is very powerful but above all, superficial and that, sadly, the exterior of a persona has a huge importance in life and it become more important than the inside.
She says the only reason she's a model is because she won at genetic lottery and she is a white and beautiful lady, which is called in the industry a sexy women.
She explains that in the last centuries beauty has been defined as a tall and slender figure with white skin, a fact that she has harnessed to "cash out on".
She explains that a study that was made in 2007 on a fashon show, showed that of 677 models that were present to parade, only 27 weren't white.
In her opinion, wanting to be a model is not healty and it shouldn't be considered as a carrer path. She also explains that almost all of the photographies are retouched and that they don't show reality, they are just construccions elaborated by professionals.
She goes on explaining a particular fact of being a model, the privileges she gets in her day to day, just for her beauty and for how she looks, and not for who she really is.
Finally, she ends by saying that although she is a model, she's very insecure, and that is had been very difficult to her to unpack a legacy of gender and racial opression as she's one of the biggest beneficiaries.