Designer Dolores Cortes holds baby Valentina during Fashion Week Swim 2013. (Getty)Valentina Guerrero is not even a year old and she's already a
swimsuit cover model with a designer campaign under her elasticized
belt.
But perhaps more impressively, she has Down syndrome, making her the first person with Down syndrome to ever be featured as the main model in a notable designer's fashion campaign.
Valentina, who hails from Miami, is the face of the 2013 DC Kids children's line from Spanish designer Dolores Cortes, reports the New York Daily News. Her smiling face graces not only the cover of the line's catalogue, but several interior shots, as well.
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"People with Down syndrome are just as beautiful and deserve the same opportunities," Cortes says in a statement that was reprinted in the Daily News. "I'm thrilled to have Valentina modeling for us."
Cortes, who has pledged to donate 10 per cent of the profits from the DC Kids line to the Down Syndrome Association of
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