{"id":350,"date":"2022-04-06T03:13:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T03:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2022-04-06T03:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T03:18:08","slug":"24-year-old-who-cant-smile-due-to-rare-condition-signs-with-modeling-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/350\/24-year-old-who-cant-smile-due-to-rare-condition-signs-with-modeling-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"24-year-old who can&#8217;t smile due to rare condition signs with modeling agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <picture>\r\n                <img src=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taylaclement.jpg\"\r\n             srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taylaclement.jpg 456w, https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taylaclement-300x266.jpg 300w\"             sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 75vw, 1200px\"\r\n             width=\"456\"\r\n             height=\"404\"\r\n             alt=\"tayla clement\"\r\n             loading=\"lazy\"             decoding=\"async\"\r\n             class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-354\" >\r\n    <\/picture>\r\n    <\/p>\n<p>Tayla Clement was born with underdeveloped facial nerves that control some eye movements and facial expressions, called\u00a0Moebius syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>She is known online now as &#8220;The Girl Who Can&#8217;t Smile&#8221; and is the role model she needed growing up, moving past her bullying days when she was made fun of for being different:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My eyebrows don&#8217;t move, my eyes don&#8217;t track, and my upper lip doesn&#8217;t move, which means I can&#8217;t smile, hence the name, &#8216;The girl who can&#8217;t smile,'&#8221; she said. &#8220;People would bring plastic bags to school to put over my head because I was so ugly and didn&#8217;t want to be seen. I think when you grow up, being told that you&#8217;re different and you&#8217;re ugly and you&#8217;re worthless, you believe it because you don&#8217;t know anything else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To anyone who doesn&#8217;t know me, I would just say I&#8217;m the girl who can&#8217;t smile,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I love being able to help others and empower and inspire others. It lights me up so much, and if I could smile, you&#8217;d see the biggest smile on my face because it truly lights me up so much.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Signing with an international modeling agency means more to Clement than photoshoots and fashion shows.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It makes me quite emotional, but I&#8217;m just so grateful that it was me that went through everything because I get to inspire people and help people and it makes me so happy,&#8221; said Clement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be so openly accepted and wanted just felt so amazing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I had no one to see in movies or in media or on the front of magazines or headlining brands or on like billboards, and so I felt really worthless because I didn&#8217;t see myself anywhere.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being comfortable with herself, she feels next level happy, free:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s another level of joy and happiness to be so content and comfortable and joyful and happy within who you are as a person, it&#8217;s also the most freeing thing in the world,&#8221; 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