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The Sims 4 - A Sim with vitiligo inspired by Winnie Harlow wears a romper and smiles inside a modern, white decor room

To celebrate the addition, Maxis has partnered with Canadian fashion model and activist Winnie Harlow, who has vitiligo and hasspoken publiclyabout the condition during her career. Harlow was also an avid Sims player as a kid, it turns out. “It’s magical to see The Sims 4 team introduce this new Vitiligo feature,” Harlow says. “As a child, I spent a lot of time playing The Sims and I think it’s so beautiful to be able to represent your true self in-game.”

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The Sims 4 - four Sims with vitiligo side by side with different skin colors

Maxis says Harlow will also be sharing some of her own interior design inspirations, a Winnie-inspired Sim to download, and a build based on her home in Hollywood.

As detailed inThe Sims blog post, the update brings 61 different vitiligo variants across all Sim ages. You can find them in the “skin details” section of the character creator above the existing birthmark details, EA says.

This is the next part of the “sensationally you” season of content that Maxisteased in January. Players had been speculating that the “beautiful [Sims Delivery Express] drop” pictured with a W pendant necklace and a silhouette in a dress would be a redesign of the Get Famous expansion character Judith Ward, but it turns out those clues actually point to Winnie Harlow’s involvement and fashion career.

After today’s base game update, we’ll yet be looking forward to a “sparkling” stuff pack, “celebratory” build mode kit, and a “co-created style kit” in the next few months.

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