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"Yesterday, you met the guy winners of Aeropostale&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Real Teen 2010&amp;quot; modeling contest. They were picked out of 5,700 entries showing the amazing ways they are creating better lives for themselves. Today, CG can&amp;#039;t wait for you to meet the four inspiring girl winners!   Kim, 18 Backstory: I&amp;#039;m adopted and my parents are older. My dad just turned 80. I help a lot in the community with the younger kids - I try to be really involved in giving back because I think that&amp;#039;s really important.  Personal Style: I&amp;#039;m very casual. Most of the time when I go to school I am wearing jeans, a cami, and hoodie. I&amp;#039;m kind of no fuss.  Role Model: My dad is my role model. He&amp;#039;s older, so he taught me a lot of values and about seizing the opportunities now, and being in the present. I don&amp;#039;t know how long my dad will be here for, and he&amp;#039;s always focusing on what&amp;#039;s important today will change my future.  Kaitlyn, 19 Backstory:  The real thing is when I look at myself as a real teen, I believe in making a difference. I started my own national nonprofit organization called Love Letters, Random Cards of Kindness. What we do is we make homemade cards for children with life-threatening illnesses. We have chapters coming in Australia, we have two in Canada, and we have North and South Korea. Personal Style: Everyone always jokes about my fashion. I love to wear high heels - even on campus. My heels are like five inches and our campus is large. I typically walk four miles a day and I walk them in heels.  Inner Beauty: Every day we go through challenges and we have different obstacles that to we try to face. The biggest thing is, when I get up in the morning the first thing I do is I look in the mirror and I tell myself three positive things. No matter what, one will be about my outer beauty, one will be about my academic performance and one will be about friendship. Just saying those positive words out loud helps me believe that I&amp;#039;m a better person and I see myself in a different light.  Kelsey, 17 Backstory: Well I know that the judges commented on my [audition] video by saying that they really liked how I talked about my friends. We don&amp;#039;t go out and drink, we&amp;#039;re good kids.  Personal Style: I usually don&amp;#039;t buy really expensive things. The clothes that I buy is with the money I earn from a job so it&amp;#039;s like, these jeans would have cost me two hours, three hours or four hours to work for if not a full day, and it&amp;#039;s like is it worth that or do I want to get something cheaper? So it&amp;#039;s casual, cool, and comfortable. Inner Beauty: I definitely went through the classic awkward grade school phase and middle school was not very fun. But I would just say, don&amp;#039;t care what people think. You&amp;#039;ll realize it doesn&amp;#039;t matter when you get to a certain point.   Rebekah, 17 Backstory: Every summer I got to Central and South America on mission trips. I just love to reach out to people. We bring stuff to the kids, we go to orphanages and soup kitchens and children&amp;#039;s hospitals all over. I really want to be a role model and I try to be one all the time.  Inner Beauty: I just decided that everybody is the same, everybody wants to be like everybody else, and they want to act like other people. So, I decided I&amp;#039;m going to be like myself and do want I personally want to do. Like in the summer while everyone wanted to go to camp and hang out, I wanted to do these mission trips, I wanted to do something different.  Motto: Dance as if no one were watching, sing as if no one were listening and live every day as if it were your last. What inspired you most about these girls? Tell us in the comments section below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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