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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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If her MIL had accepted her with some affection, wouldn't they have built a mutually happier relationship by now?
The incident took place ten years ago.
Smita could visit her mother only in summers when her daughter had school holidays. Her daughter also enjoyed meeting her Nani, and both of them had done their reservations for a week. A month before their visit, her husband told her, “My mom is coming for 4-5 months!”
Smita shuddered. She knew the repercussions. She would have to hear sarcastic comments from her mother-in-law for visiting her mother. She may make these comments directly only a bit, but her servants would be flooded with the words, “How horrible she is! She leaves me and goes!”
Maybe Animal is going to make Ranbir the superstar he yearns to be, but is this the kind of legacy his grandfather and granduncles would wish for?
I have no intention of watching Animal. I have heard it’s acting like a small baby screaming and yelling for attention. However, I read some interesting reviews which gave away the original, brilliant and awe-inspiring plot (was that sarcastic enough?), and I don’t really need to go watch it to have an informed opinion.
A little boy craves for his father’s love but doesn’t get it so uses it as an excuse to kill a whole bunch of people when he grows up. Poor paapa (baby) what else could he do?
I was wondering; if any woman director gets inspired by this movie and replicates this with a female protagonist, what would happen?. Oh wait, that’s the story of so many women in this world. Forget about not giving them love, you have fathers who try to kill their daughters or sell them off or do other equally despicable things.
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