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When she was in high school,
Lizzie Velasquez was dubbed
"The World's Ugliest Woman" in
an 8-second-long YouTube
video. Born with a medical
condition so rare that just two
other people in the world are
thought to have it, Velasquez
has no adipose tissue and
cannot create muscle, store
energy, or gain weight. She
has zero percent body fat and
weighs just 60 pounds.
In the comments on YouTube,
viewers called her "it" and
"monster" and encouraged her
to kill herself. Instead,
Velasquez set four goals: To
become a motivational
speaker, to publish a book, to
graduate college, and to build
a family and a career for
herself.
Now 23 years old, she's been a
motivational speaker for seven
years and has given more than
200 workshops on embracing
uniqueness, dealing with
bullies, and overcoming
obstacles. She's a senior
majoring in Communications at
Texas State University in San
Marcos, where she lives with
her best friend. Her first
book, "Lizzie Beautiful," came
out in 2010 winning the hearts
of many around the world and
her second, "Be Beautiful, Be
You," was published earlier
September and In 2013 she's
hoping to write her third book.
"The stares are what I'm
really dealing with in public
right now," she told Dr. Drew
Pinsky in an interview on CNN's
Headline News. But I think I'm
getting to the point where…
instead of sitting by and
watching people judge me, I'm
starting to want to go up to
these people and introduce
myself or give them my card
and say, 'Hi, I'm Lizzie. Maybe
you should stop staring and
start learning'."
Velasquez was born in San
Antonio, Texas; she was four
weeks premature and weighed
just 2 pounds, 10 ounces.
"They told us they had no idea
how she could have survived,"
her mother, Rita, 45, told the
Daily Mail. "We had to buy doll's
clothes from the toy store
Because the baby clothes were too
big." Doctors warned Rita and
her husband, Lupe, that their
oldest child would never be able
to walk or talk, let alone live a
normal life. (Her two younger
siblings were not affected by
the syndrome.)
Instead, she has thrived. Her
internal organs, brain, and
bones developed normally,
though her body is tiny. Since
she has no fatty tissue in
which to store nutrients, she
has to eat every 15 to 20
minutes to have enough energy
to get through the day. One
brown eye started clouding
over when she was 4 years old,
and now she's blind in that eye
and has only limited sight in
the other.....
When she was in high school,
Lizzie Velasquez was dubbed
"The World's Ugliest Woman" in
an 8-second-long YouTube
video. Born with a medical
condition so rare that just two
other people in the world are
thought to have it, Velasquez
has no adipose tissue and
cannot create muscle, store
energy, or gain weight. She
has zero percent body fat and
weighs just 60 pounds.
In the comments on YouTube,
viewers called her "it" and
"monster" and encouraged her
to kill herself. Instead,
Velasquez set four goals: To
become a motivational
speaker, to publish a book, to
graduate college, and to build
a family and a career for
herself.
Now 23 years old, she's been a
motivational speaker for seven
years and has given more than
200 workshops on embracing
uniqueness, dealing with
bullies, and overcoming
obstacles. She's a senior
majoring in Communications at
Texas State University in San
Marcos, where she lives with
her best friend. Her first
book, "Lizzie Beautiful," came
out in 2010 winning the hearts
of many around the world and
her second, "Be Beautiful, Be
You," was published earlier
September and In 2013 she's
hoping to write her third book.
"The stares are what I'm
really dealing with in public
right now," she told Dr. Drew
Pinsky in an interview on CNN's
Headline News. But I think I'm
getting to the point where…
instead of sitting by and
watching people judge me, I'm
starting to want to go up to
these people and introduce
myself or give them my card
and say, 'Hi, I'm Lizzie. Maybe
you should stop staring and
start learning'."
Velasquez was born in San
Antonio, Texas; she was four
weeks premature and weighed
just 2 pounds, 10 ounces.
"They told us they had no idea
how she could have survived,"
her mother, Rita, 45, told the
Daily Mail. "We had to buy doll's
clothes from the toy store
Because the baby clothes were too
big." Doctors warned Rita and
her husband, Lupe, that their
oldest child would never be able
to walk or talk, let alone live a
normal life. (Her two younger
siblings were not affected by
the syndrome.)
Instead, she has thrived. Her
internal organs, brain, and
bones developed normally,
though her body is tiny. Since
she has no fatty tissue in
which to store nutrients, she
has to eat every 15 to 20
minutes to have enough energy
to get through the day. One
brown eye started clouding
over when she was 4 years old,
and now she's blind in that eye
and has only limited sight in
the other.....
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