Chioma Nnadi

She revealed earlier in the year that she'd been undergoing treatment for a very serious heart condition that she has.

And this is the first time that she's speaking since she revealed that diagnosis.

I have so many thoughts about it.

But Laura, I know that you worked on pulling looks and we talked a lot about the shoot and why it had to be joyful.

Can you talk a bit about the fashion for this story?

That one is one of my favorite images.

It's so emotional.

Yes, totally.

Yeah.

Yeah, she's really come into her own.

I remember doing an interview around the same time with her.

She was quite shy and she was still kind of learning the ropes, but her enthusiasm and

she was just so happy to be in the room, you know?

And it was for a cover story that we did with about 16 models.

It was like a global cover story.

And you could just tell that she had a star quality and she wanted to also to be a voice.

Like she's developed her personality.

She brings so much to, she's become a supermodel.

You know, I think we talk about supermodels and the word gets thrown around a lot.

But she is that.