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Blésnya Minher, model: “My father when he sees my achievements feels guilty: ‘My mother, I almost deprived you of all this’”

He was born in a village in Angola where the future was not exactly bright. He has made his way thanks to his perseverance in his profession.

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Blésnya Minher, model: “My father when he sees my achievements feels guilty: ‘My mother, I almost deprived you of all this’”

Blensnya Minher, a model from Angola, born in Ngazi in 1998, now living in Lisboa, speaks Spanish which she learned after signing her first contract with Calvin Klein. At the time, she split her life between Bueu, a small fishing village in Pontevedra, and New York. She met a Spaniard on Facebook while living in Luanda, a city she moved to from a village in the north of Angola.

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