Showing posts with label lipodystrophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lipodystrophy. Show all posts

Friday, March 20, 2015

Lizzie Velasquez Has Been Called The World's Ugliest Woman. She's Also The Most Courageous...

Lizzie Velasquez knows what it's like to be ridiculed and bullied.
From childhood onwards she's suffered the taunts of others in her neighborhood and from cyber bullies from around this sometimes very unpleasant world.
As a seventeen year old, she came across a video of herself on YouTube that described her as The World's Ugliest Woman.
Now twenty six this beautiful, inspirational and courageous woman has hit back with an anti-bullying doco about her life describing her battle with the rare condition called Marfan Syndrome and Lipodystrophy which doesn't allow her to put on weight. At five foot two, Lizzie weighs only fifty eight pounds.
She made an amazing public debut on TED and is now starring in A Brave Heart, her own story...