A 26-year-old woman was labelled as "the world's ugliest" and she has got something to say.
Mirror UK reports Lizzie Velasquez was born with an undiagnosed syndrome that makes her blind in one eye and stops her from gaining weight. When she was 17, she came across a clip from YouTube entitled "The World's Ugliest Woman" and found out the horrible title was given to her.
"I cried for many nights - as a teenager I thought my life was over," Lizzie recalled.
The dreadful video was watched over four million times with people leaving comments like she should've been dead at birth.
"I was shocked," she said, "but it wasn't until I started to read the comments that my stomach really sank."
"Why would her parents keep her?!" one commented, while another one wrote, "kill it with fire," according to BBC.
"There were thousands and thousands of awful comments, all along the lines of: the world would be a better place if I weren't in it," she told Fox News. "Each comment I read I felt like someone was physically putting their fist through the screen and punching me."
Good thing Lizzie didn't let what other people think break her. Instead, she learned from her experience and decided to help others deal with the same problem.
"I always knew I wanted to show those people that they weren't going to define me," she said. "I didn't want the definition of me that they were creating to become my truth."
Setting as an inspiration for victims of bullying, Lizzie confidently shared her story at Ted Talk and released the documentary, "A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story."
"I knew this was my purpose," she said on the film trailer. "This is going to be what I'm gonna do for the rest of my life."
