For young children, their parents are the most significant individuals in their lives. Children depend on their parents from birth to give them the attention and security they require to grow and develop properly as well as to be happy and healthy.
Our emotional and physical health may suffer if we are compelled to grow up without parents for whatever reason.
Born in China, 16-year-old Xueli Abbing was left behind by her parents.
She was abandoned at the entrance of an orphanage, perhaps because she was too “strange.”
Because of her appearance, the caregivers at the orphanage gave her the name “Xueli.”
Li means beautiful, and Xue means snow white. There isn’t a finer name that comes to mind for this adorable infant who was born with albinism.
A hereditary condition known as albinism causes the skin, hair, and eyes to produce less melanin, a pigment that gives them a pale or nonexistent appearance.
A lovely family from the Netherlands adopted her and showed her love and care.
A Hong Kong designer approached her to model for him at the age of eleven for a photo session in which he aimed to depict the various forms of beauty.
In an interview with the BBC, Abbing stated, “She referred to the campaign as ‘perfect imperfections’ and asked if I would like to participate in her fashion show in Hong Kong.””It was an incredible experience.”
People with albinism are subjected to prejudice, stigmatization, and discrimination because of their race and color.
Because of the erroneous notion that their bones have therapeutic qualities, they are even “hunted” in certain severe cases. Go figure!
“I’m fortunate that I was only left behind,” Abbing has stated.
Abbing remarks that “it makes her sad” when models with albinism are employed to represent angels or ghosts.
But over her head, Abbing had a lucky star. She did put in a lot of work, though.
She was taken under the wing of a London-based photographer who treated her the same as any other model.
She was featured in the June 2019 issue of Vogue Italia magazine as a result of their gorgeous photo session!
“It took me a while to realize why people were so excited about it because I didn’t know what an important magazine it was at the time,” she recalls.
In the interview, she stated, “There are still models who are eight feet two and skinny, but people with disabilities or differences are featured in the media more now, and this is great – but it should be normal.”
“Perhaps I concentrate more on people’s voices and what they have to say because I can’t see everything clearly,” she added.”For me, their inner beauty is more significant.”
Her goal is to change the perception of people with albinism.
“I want to discuss albinism using modeling and explain that it’s a genetic condition rather than a curse,” she explains.”A person with albinism is the best way to discuss it because it sounds like being “an albino” defines who you are.”
“The idea that children are being killed because they have albinism is unacceptable to me. She declared, “I want to change the world.”
We hope the snow-white beauty has the greatest possible travel! And we sincerely hope that she changes the way that others perceive people with albinism.
