UPDATE: Chad Hurst wins Big Brother Australia 2020

Growing up in Melbourne in the 1990s, Laura Coriakula had never thought she would one day appear on a televised social experiment like Big Brother . If anything, she looked for ways to attract the least attention, and furthermore, longed to try change who she was.

As a kid you dont say these things, you dont know how to articulate it. You would only feel them and have thoughts in my head of, I want light skin, I want blue eyes, I want blonde hair, she told HuffPost Australia.

The now-25-year-old, whose father hails from Matuku Island in Fiji, was recalling the impact of facing racism during her childhood.