My oh my, if the bullies could see her now

[zwiebel]

23-year-old Shelley-Marie spent her entire childhood and most of her teens being bullied and treated as contagious, because of her severe eczema problem. Nobody wanted to go near her at her school in the West Midlands, UK. She even came close to self-harm.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-school-bullies-goes-win-beauty-contest.html

 

[zwiebel]

How times have changed. You go girl, you go

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-school-bullies-goes-win-beauty-contest.html

 

[zwiebel]

''Shelley-Marie Sumner, 23, was relentlessly mocked by her cruel classmates due to her severe eczema, which left her confidence in tatters, even as her skin cleared up in later years.

After her boyfriend Dean convinced her she was beautiful, she finally felt confident enough to enter this year’s Miss Black Country beauty pageant, which she won...

‘It was completely mad. I was sitting on a throne with this big crown on and my family were staring at me in amazement. I was extremely happy to have won it,’ she said..'

http://metro.co.uk/2014/12/25/girl-...eczema-grows-up-to-be-a-beauty-queen-4999183/

 

[teedie2]

This is a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing it. I'm so happy for this young lady.