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A woman who was bullied for the way she looks is the focus of a new film that premieres at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on Saturday.
What started as a search for music online - purely homework procrastination - would change Lizzie Velasquez's life.
She was 17 when she stumbled across a YouTube video entitled "The World's Ugliest Woman". What she didn't expect was that the woman featured in the video would be her. It was an eight-second clip and had been watched over four million times.
Lizzy was born with Marfan and lipodystrophy which means she is unable to gain weight and has severe and persistent medical issues and a distinctive appearance. Although she found the cruel comments left under the video traumatic, she fought back and has become an activist helping others be 'confident in their own skin'. She has her own YouTube channel now with hundreds of thousands of views, and has spoken at the Prestigious Ted Talks.
And now she's in the movies. What a beautiful person.