Celai West is an everygirl for the 2020s: an actress, author, activist, CEO, influencer, disruptor, and runway coach. She is also the youngest professional runway model… and she’s only just entered her teens! She has a massive social media following, including 216,000 Instagram followers, 17,000 TikTok followers, and over 6,800 YouTube subscribers. She has been print modelling since was just five years old, has been walking on runways since she was six, and best of all, is completely self-taught!

West’s portfolio already includes big-name American brands like Target, Disney, Amazon, and Gap. When she was 10 years old, she became the young ever pro model to walk in an all-adult show at New York Fashion Week, arguably the most important fashion event on the planet. But there’s far more to her than modelling. When she was seven, she became the CEO of her own t-shirt company, TheChattyChick.Com. She appeared in the music video for Willy William’s 2017 single, ‘Voodoo Song’, which has been viewed over 22 million times on YouTube. She has also co-authored two books on runway coaching for parents and children.

Based on her own experiences in the fashion industry, West is also a passionate texture activist, campaigning for better representation of ethnically textured hair across the media and also for better training for hairdressers who work with models and actresses etc. whose hair is ethnically textured. With so much going on at such a young age, West is a shining example of talent, conscience, and determination.