This is Lizzy Velásquez, the ugliest woman in the world

Lizzy Velásquez is an American woman who suffers from a strange disease that only two more people in the world suffer from it besides her. She is a cheerful, charming woman, with a big heart and a great capacity to love, but she has had to suffer all kinds of ridicule for not being physically attractive due to her illness.

Today she is known worldwide for exposing to the world what she has had to suffer, and she has become popular for telling her is one of those motivating stories that reach the bottom of the soul.

Who is Lizzy Velasquez?

Lizzy Velásquez was born in Austin, Texas (United States) in a family of three sisters, of whom she is the eldest. She was born prematurely at 8 months gestation. At the age of 23, she recognized her illness, just as she was about to graduate with a Bachelor's Degree in Communication..

Lizzy has used her knowledge in this area to bring to the world what she considers lucky: her disease. With an ironic tone, she holds conferences exposing her problem and recounting how people have laughed at her.

To know a little more about her, you can watch the video shown below.

Her illness

Lizzy suffers from a rare disease, which only three people in the world suffer from (including her). This pathology does not let her gain weight, and her body fat level remains at 0%. In fact, she has never weighed more than 30 kg. She is blind in her right eye and has limited vision in the other..

As for the physical appearance, it is similar to that of a person with progeria and she gives him an image of an aging woman. According to her, the doctors told her mother that she would not live long, but her state of mind is such that she is still alive and kicking. Researchers at the University of Texas Southeastern Medical Center think her condition is similar to her progeria but without attacking her bones, organs or teeth, and is not hereditary.

An example for many

The curious thing about Lizzy's case is how she has known how to turn around the situation that she has had to live. Not only because of the consequences that this disease has for her at the organism level, but also how human beings can be so cruel and harmful with our comments and our attitude of rejection.

In one of her conferences, Lizze recounted that one day, while she was browsing the internet, she came across a YouTube video in which she was named "the ugliest woman in the world." Rather than burst into tears as she tells it, she acknowledges that she is not an attractive woman and that many are unaware that her ugliness is part of her illness.

Her noble heart does not allow her to hold a grudge against those people who have used easy laughter to make fun of her, and in fact, she uses all her energy from it. to encourage people with problems to accept the situation and enjoy this life that, although we often forget, we can only enjoy once time.

She takes her disease with humor

Lizzy, as a good communicator, knows that a sense of humor captivates the audience, and in her lectures she makes the audience have a good time. The first time you see her (if you don't know her yet) you may feel sorry for her, but the reality is that she recognizes that it is a blessing of hers to suffer from her illness.

“With my illness I can eat whatever I want (french fries, hamburgers, chocolate) and I never gain weight,” she says. In addition, she jokes that gyms should hire her as their image, as she can be used as a model to prove that her weight loss workouts work.

Human beings have a lot to learn from her, especially those who have laughed at her physical appearance.

The discrimination that ugly people have to endure...

Unfortunately, we live in a world where people who are unattractive or unsuccessful are often forgotten and even mistreated. Being ugly can make a person experience a series of obstacles in life and can make them suffer a series of discriminatory attitudes that they have to endure, as in the case of Lizzy.

In fact, there are different types of discrimination, as you can see in our article “The 16 types of discrimination (and their causes)”, and one of them is discrimination based on physical appearance.

But, What discriminatory attitudes do the ugly suffer? In general, people who are considered ugly...

• They earn less money than the handsome ones, as confirmed by research carried out by the University of California. According to the results, they earn 12% less on average than handsome individuals.
• They have fewer job opportunities. This is what a study led by Ze'ev Shtudiner and Bradley J. Ruffle from Ariel University in Israel and the University of Ontario in Canada respectively.
• They are more prone to bullying and mobbing. This was verified by researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Notre Dame (United States).
• They are less remembered, says Michael Baker, of the American University of East Carolina, in his research published in the scientific journal Evolutionary Psychology.
• They are seen as conversationalists and not as objects of desire, so they have fewer opportunities to flirt.
• They receive less help, as shown by many investigations, one of which was published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.
• They go unnoticed at social events and often remain in the background.

You can learn more about these discriminatory actions in our article: “"Ugly" people must put up with these 8 discriminatory attitudes”