![]() My friend Alexis Jones - an EP on A Brave Heart - was co-organizing the event and we had learned of Lizzie’s story. Sara Bordo: Lizzie and I first met when I was invited to produce the first TEDxAustinWomen event in December 2013. I spoke with Lizzie Velasquez and director Sara Bordo about the making of the documentary and the future for bullies and their victims. A Brave Heart chronicles her journey from bully victim to motivational speaker and anti-bullying activist, and her Capitol Hill lobbying for the first federal anti-bullying bill. The vlog’s sizable readership led to her TEDx Talk that garnered over 10 million views and inspired people around the world. In the documentary, A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story - from first-time director Sara Bordo - Velasquez recounts when she found the video and how she masochistically read painfully cruel YouTube comments like, “Kill it with fire.” She knew she had to face the cyberbullies, so she created a vlog to show that she is more than her syndrome. By the time she was in high school she felt she had triumphed the bullies, until - at age 17 - she stumbled on a YouTube video of herself that labeled her, “The World’s Ugliest Woman.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Born with a rare syndrome that prevents her from gaining weight, Lizzie was tormented by peers as early as kindergarten for looking different. When Lizzie Velasquez, 26, was born, she was four weeks premature and two pounds, 11 ounces. ![]()
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