If you’re having a low self-esteem day, struggling with self-image, anxiety or facing bullying in your school, place of habitation, workplace or online, then you may find this story about Lizzie Velasquez helpful. Lizzie has now become an inspirational author and motivational speaker, but her life’s journey has not been easy.

Writer, Lucinda van der Hart, describes how when Lizzie turned 17, she expe