Bullies mock their daughter’s face: But look at her 25 years later when she silences all the haters

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As soon as Lizzie Velásquez went to kindergarten, she realized that she was different.

And it was also the first time she was bullied.

When she was born in 1989, Lizzie Velásquez from Austin, Texas, weighed only 2 pounds 11 ounces and her face looked different than the other babies in the maternity ward.

Her doctors diagnosed her with an extremely rare genetic disorder called Marfan syndrome, which only a few people around the world have. The extremely rare syndrome that prevents her from gaining weight, hence affecting her appearance; only three such cases are known in the world.

The condition also causes her to age faster than people without the disorder, and it left her blind in one eye.