Woman breaks silence over cyberbullying, body shaming
Lizzie responds through an Instagram post to people involved in body shaming her via memes
LAHORE (Web Desk) – A woman named Lizzie Velasquez has responded to the people in an Instagram post who were using her photographs as viral and funny posts. She was being portrayed as an ugly person in these memes which caused her severe distress.
Lizzie is a motivational speaker and she was born with a disease named Marfan syndrome. Her physical condition was caused by an anomaly in which the body is unable to store fat. People with Marfan syndrome are usually tall, skinny and weak.
Their outer appearance is affected since birth and an average of 1 in every 5,000 people suffer from this syndrome, however, it varies from place to place.
Lizzie Velasquez’s Instagram post says, “I ve seen a ton of memes like this all over @facebook recently. I m writing this post not as someone who is a victim but as someone who is using their voice. Yes, it s very late at night as I type this but I do so as a reminder that the innocent people that are being put in these memes are probably up just as late scrolling through Facebook and feeling something that I wouldn t wish on my worst enemy. No matter what we look like or what size we are, at the end of the day we are all human. I ask that you keep that in mind the next time you see a viral meme of a random stranger. At the time you might find it hilarious but the human in the photo is probably feeling the exact opposite. Spread love not hurtful words via a screen. Xoxo Lizzie.”
The post got over 31.6k likes and about 3360 people sympathized for Lizzie in the comments section. Meanwhile, thousands of accounts who were indulged in her body shaming were closed and she thanked for the overwhelming support.
