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McDANIEL cont. from Page 1 then MTV found him. Now, he has more services every Sunday, hosts youth
of bullying and often got into fights than 16,000 followers on Instagram Bible studies and is in charge of the
because of it. He was defensive, and so (@__curtismac). college ministry. McDaniel will also be
was his family—maybe even more than Modeling, though, is just a side job, ordained in October, and he preached
he was. he says. McDaniel is focused on sum- his first-ever sermon last month.
“They get more aggravated if they mer classes and full time school in the Discovering God when he was 16
see somebody staring at me,” he said. fall, as well as going to church and work- changed his life, McDaniel said. Church
“They’re very supportive. With the ing full time as an aide for vulnerable is what taught him how to be confident,
MTV thing, they were calling every- adults, children and familes at Oaks Inte- how to be bold and even things like how
body. Cousins that I never met were grated Care in Mount Holly. to speak in public.
reaching out. They’re very supportive. Filming True Life took place on week- “We’re talking about a leader,” Hud-
My mother’s always bringing up my vit- ends spread out over two months. The son said. “I tell him often that he’s an old
iligo. She’s super sensitive about it. If episode followed McDaniel as he spoke soul. I know that he’s seeing life from a
anybody says anything, she’s the first to students about growing up with vitil- different perspective. He can share his
one on it.” igo, to his church, while spending time faith, share how he’s pushed through
A Bordentown Regional High School with a few of his 10 siblings and to a his own insecurities.”
alum, McDaniel attended Mercer meeting with a talent agent. McDaniel has overcome his insecuri-
County Community College and was “They came with the whole camera ties in a big way. He says “it would have
accepted into both Rutgers Univer- crew,” he said. “It was pretty cool at first, blown my mind” to have seen someone
sity and Temple University for the fall. but after awhile, I was like, ‘Man, these with vitiligo in a magazine or on televi-
He plans to study urban planning and guys are still here? I’m kind of tired of sion when he was growing up and strug-
design. this.’” gling to come into his own.
It was during his time at Mercer that McDaniel also spoke a lot about his “It would have given me a lot more
his confidence started to bloom. For father, James, in the episode. James died confidence,” he said. “‘If this guy has
awhile, he wore Dermablend founda- due to complications from pneumonia a vitiligo, and he’s so confident, I can do
tion to cover up the blotches. That only few years ago, and that was hard on Cur- the same thing, too.’ I’m pretty sure
made him more insecure, though, until tis. The two were close and spent time when kids see [me], they know that
he decided to wipe it off for the last time. together often. Bordentown resident Curtis they’re not alone in their struggle.
“I didn’t want people to find out that “He had his struggles,” McDaniel McDaniel has had vitiligo since They have somebody they can talk to.
I wore it,” he said. “I was more self-con- said. “There were times when I rebelled he was 11 years old. It first It feels horrible when you feel like the
scious about that than my actual skin against him completely. Before he died, started as a blotch on his left only person who is dealing with some-
color. When I got to college, I was like, he actually told me that he was going wrist. (Photo by Suzette J. Lucas.) thing. The hardest part about vitiligo
‘I’m not wearing this anymore.’ I took to die, and he gave me some prophetic is that you can’t control it. It’s learning
it off, and that’s where my confidence words. He told me never to smoke, how to cope with things that are out of
began.” drink, hit a woman, and to always put hope that I can live out his legacy and be our control.”
A model named Sean Rose, he said, God first. Everything he told me to do, even better.” That’s what Hudson sees when
reached out to McDaniel via Instagram I kept it. It was like he wanted me to be McDaniel is doing all of that and McDaniel gets in front of a crowd at
in 2014. McDaniel’s pictures started a better man than he was and learn from more, said Victor Hudson. Hudson is church or during a youth session.
circulating aroud the internet, which his mistakes. It blessed me as a man. the pastor at The Room Church on West Hudson has watched as McDaniel—
is how a number of photographers and Me and my father were very close, and I Park Street, where McDaniel attends who Hudson says has a beautiful singing
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