Sophia Hadjipanteli: the "uniceja" who received death threats because of her appearance

Sophia Hadjipanteli She made herself known by breaking stereotypes as a model, because this blonde with clear eyes and spectacular silhouette drew attention to her. "Uniceja", who refuses to shave.

Last year, his story jumped in the media and on Instagram, it has nearly 300,000 followers. But defying the canons of beauty has earned him death threats by people who can not stand their image and attack it because of its appearance.

In a recent interview for Hello BritanThe 22-year-old spoke about the aggressive comments she received and the ones she tries not to pay attention to.

"I get a lot of death threats"badured presenters Susanna Reid and Morgan Piers.

Hadjipanteli was born in Cyprus and, after emigrating to London, settled in the United States, a country where He graduated in Marketing from the University of Maryland.

Since she's a child, she is being bullied, but not because of anything that touches her face. The critics were about their clothes, their immigrant parents or did not speak English.

As a result, she learned not to base her safety on how others treated her or what they said about her.

"I'm trying not to read a lot of those comments ... it's a shame that when you want to read the good comments, you have to go through the wrong ones, but I think it's worth it, "he added.

Something that comforts Sophia, amidst the aggression she suffers, is that her boyfriend loves her appearance.

The model has a relationship with Zac Apostolou, a photographer based in London.

"He also had uniceja when he was a child, I dyed my eyebrows, they are naturally dark but not so dark, so whenever I paint them, he is very interested in what I do."

The story of Sophia to promote self-acceptance has begun in 2014, when he accidentally painted his eyebrows in black and instead of correcting the color, he decided to adopt his new look and look uncomplicated his particular eyebrows, something that helped him get a contract with a UK modeling agency.

"I really wanted to put pressure on people so that they would see me and see my uniceja-" they were conditioned to think is something weird and something you should get rid of– and always say that I'm beautiful with this unattractive thing & # 39; ", he said in an interview for The Cult.

The young woman remembered that when she was a teenager, she wanted to have slimmer eyebrows, but by that time, it had become fashionable to have thick eyebrows and she was enjoying it.