Kindness is key for anti-bullying activist Lizzie Velasquez

Labelled the ‘world’s ugliest woman’ in a cruel online post, Lizzie Velasquez is refusing to allow the people who branded her a ‘monster’ define her, writes Rita de Brún

Kindness is key for anti-bullying activist Lizzie Velasquez

Born with a rare syndrome that prevents her from gaining weight, Lizzie Velasquez is tiny, doll-like and beautiful to the core.

As a high-school girl in Texas, she found a video someone posted online. In that, she was labelled the world’s ugliest woman. By the time she saw it, it had been watched four million times and generated thousands of comments; many of the toxic kind.

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