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Adesuwa Pariyapasat, 22, of Benin City, Nigeria, listens to music while her fingernails are painted backstage before the Rebecca Minkoff Spring 2015 collection show Friday, Sept. 5, 2014, during Fashion Week in New York. Pariyapasat began modeling only recently, but was scouted while in school in her native Nigeria at age 17. Despite leaving behind

Adesuwa Pariyapasat, 22, of Benin City, Nigeria, listens to music while her fingernails are painted backstage before the Rebecca Minkoff Spring 2015 collection show Friday, Sept. 5, 2014, during Fashion Week in New York. Pariyapasat began modeling only recently, but was scouted while in school in her native Nigeria at age 17. Despite leaving behind both her parents, two brothers and a sister, homesickness isn’t a big problem for her. “I get homesick every now and then, but I’ve moved so much in my life…it doesn’t matter where I am, really.” She feels the biggest misconception about modeling is that it’s easy, saying that there is “a lot of psychological damage, a lot of psychological turmoil” involved. With regards to her future in modeling, “I don’t even plan that far, I just want to live every day. Life is about finding things that come at you, so, who knows?” (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)