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"  If you&amp;#039;re having a down day about the way you look; wondering how you might shed the excess pounds you&amp;#039;ve convinced yourself you need to lose, or wishing you&amp;#039;d been born with bigger boobs, you need to sit down and take a good look at Style Like U&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;What&amp;#039;s Underneath&amp;#039; project. SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH MELANIE&amp;#039;S WHAT&amp;#039;S UNDERNEATH PROJECT VIDEO IN FULL Style Like U is a digital platform honouring those with &amp;#039;real&amp;#039;, natural style, set up by mother and daughter Elisa and Lily. The pair began their campaign to spread the notion that style comes from within, and that inner beauty is what&amp;#039;s most important, in May this year. In the series, they interview and film various people to discuss their past, and what they believe makes them beautiful.  The campaign&amp;#039;s ethos is all about what&amp;#039;s inside a person, and not the exterior circumstances they have found themselves in: &amp;quot;It is not about trends, It is not about money, It is not a facade, It is not about wanting to be someone else.  It is comfort in your skin, It is acceptance of yourself and others, It is knowing who you are, It is your spirit, It is immaterial, It is What&amp;#039;s Underneath.&amp;quot; The most recent video features model Melanie Gaydos, who suffers from ectodermal dysplasia, a hereditary disorder that effects pores, hair, teeth and nails. She talks openly, and emotionally, about her eventful upbringing which involved alcoholism and abuse, and her struggle with &amp;#039;fitting in&amp;#039; to society&amp;#039;s demands.      But instead of dwelling on her perceived misfortunes, Melanie shows strength in herself and acceptance of who she is. &amp;quot;I feel like I&amp;#039;m the only person that can deal with what I&amp;#039;ve been through and I wouldn&amp;#039;t want to wish what I&amp;#039;ve had experienced on anyone else. I have thought how I would be if I was born without a cleft palate and with a full head of hair, and I think I would be really boring. Even though I&amp;#039;ve been through a lot, they&amp;#039;re my experiences, and I like where everything has brought me today,&amp;quot; she tells the camera.  And discussing her move into modelling in recent years, after a boyfriend who was a photographer offered to take pictures of her, she says; &amp;quot;I love modelling; it&amp;#039;s a time for me to be completely open. It&amp;#039;s a therapeutic process for me.&amp;quot; Displaying wisdom greater than her years, Melanie discusses what she believes beauty is, and tells Elisa and Lily that she thinks it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;more of a feeling, and a state of being&amp;quot; than something so superficial. Despite being callously listed in the &amp;#039;top 25 ugliest celebrities&amp;#039; by a Russian newspaper, Melanie remains positive about who she is and what she stands for. Inspiringly, when asked if she would ever trade places to be in another body, she says no. &amp;quot;Being in your own body is a good place to be, because it&amp;#039;s the only place to be,&amp;quot; she points out. So maybe we should all take a leaf out of her book, and start to value ourselves, inside and out, a little bit more. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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