I had only ever flipped through Vogue for fleeting moments of a fantasy, like everyone else, but I never saw myself on those pages or thought the magazine was for me. Now from my new vantage point, I vowed to myself that if I could make it this far into a world that was once only a dream to me—even if it was the very lowest rung—then surely I could aspire to chart my own path to the pinnacle of it.
