A model who was bullied for having a “ginger afro” says she now draws confidence from looking different.

As a child, Chanel Hill, 29, endured racist slurs and physical attacks linked to her ethnicity and hair.

Now bald and heavily tattooed, she is a model for Rihanna’s lingerie line Savage x Fenty

Miss Hill said as a child people “put cigarettes out on me, spat in my face, smashed food out of my hand”.

She said growing up in Keynsham, a small town between Bristol and Bath, she was one of only two or three people in her primary school from a non-white background.

“I was bullied every single day. I had this one lad who made my life hell.

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