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Meet Melanie Gaydos, a model, who is taking the fashion industry by storm, who is also a hope for every woman fighting body images.
Meet Melanie Gaydos, a model who is taking the fashion industry by storm, and who is also a hope for every woman fighting body images.
We live in a world that dictates the bodies of women. We have unnatural standards to keep up with in the name of beauty. It is more than obvious that our body images are hit hard, since childhood. All around we hear and start believing that we are not enough if we do not fit into a size.
Then there are models and super models whom we look up to for that perfect body, hair or teeth. They are all around us, on billboards, in television, magazines and all over the Internet.
However, beneath this entire bizarre beauty standard, there is one woman, who is living her own standards. Meet Melanie Gaydos. She suffers from a rare genetic disorder, Ectodermal Dysplasia that affects her teeth, hair and skin.
In school, she was bullied for being different. Despite all these, she stood up to be who she is, without confirming to anything. She appears to be as she is, without a wig or any enhancements. She is a model who has appeared in the ‘Mein Herz Brennt’ video. She is taking the fashion world by a storm now.
In today’s world, she stands as a hope to so many, to stand for what we are within, rather than what we look like or wear. In the video below, she talks about it all.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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