Lizzie Velásquez
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| YouTube channel | |
| language | English |
| founding | February 11, 2008 |
| channels | Lizzie Velasquez |
| Subscribers | over 800,000 |
| Calls | over 60,000,000 |
| Videos | over 450 |
| network | Maker Studios |
Elizabeth Ann "Lizzie" Velásquez (born March 13, 1989 in Austin , Texas ) is an American non-fiction author , activist, motivational speaker and operator of a YouTube channel.
Life
Velásquez was the oldest of three children to Rita and Guadalupe Velásquez. She was born with Marfan's syndrome , a connective tissue disease. Due to her external appearance, she suffered from bullying as a child .
Until the end of 2012, she studied communication science at Texas State University .
Career
Lizzie Velasquez became known worldwide after a video about them, titled "The world's ugliest woman" (dt .: The ugliest woman in the world had been published) on YouTube. The then 17-year-old then decided to take action against bullying. She has appeared on various US talk shows and has published three self-help books , two of which have been translated into Spanish, and a documentary entitled "A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velásquez Story". This received mostly good ratings.
In 2008 Velásquez opened her YouTube channel “Lizzie Velásquez”, which was subscribed to by more than 862,000 people (as of August 11, 2020). In 2017, she also released her own series "Unzipped with Lizzie Velásquez", in which she exchanged views with various guests on various topics such as fashion trends, relationships or self-love.
Works
- Lizzie Beautiful: The Lizzie Velásquez Story . Epigraph Publishing Service, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9825190-0-4
- Be beautiful, be you . Liguori Publications, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7648-2079-3
- Choosing happiness . Liguori Publications, 2014, ISBN 978-0-7648-2488-3
Web links
- Homepage on Tumblr
- Lizzie Velásquez's channel on YouTube
- Lizzie Velasquez in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ABC News: Lizzie Velasquez on Choosing to Fight Bullies: 'I Wanted To Have Control Over What I Showed People Who I Was'. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
- ↑ KATIE MOISSE: Texas Woman Can't Gain Weight, Bullied Over Looks. ABC News, September 13, 2012, accessed August 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Theresa Jauk: Bullying because of a rare disease: Mocked as the ugliest woman in the world: Now Lizzie Velasquez strikes back - video. In: Focus Online . March 18, 2015, accessed October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Enrique Lopetegui: "The Lizzie Project": 29-kilogram woman strikes back now. In: welt.de . May 25, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Lydia Pric: Lizzie Velasquez Releases A Braveheart. In: people.com. September 24, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Christy Lemire: A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story movie review (2015) | Roger Ebert. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
- ↑ A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story. In: metacritic.com. 2015, accessed August 2020 .
- ↑ A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story (2015). In: rottentomatoes.com. September 2015, accessed August 2020 .
- ↑ Unzipped with Lizzie Velasquez. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Velásquez, Lizzie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Velásquez, Elizabeth Ann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American motivational speaker, activist, author and Youtuber |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Austin , Texas |