@esoksb1: Usha Singh-Das grew up in London with a severe skin condition. Eczema covered her body, leaving her skin dry, cracked and darkened. And the cruelty didn't come only from strangers. It came from her own family. Relatives mocked how she looked. They told her she was ugly. They told her that with skin like hers, no one would ever want to marry her. "Pretty much anyone I can think of" bullied her, she said. Year after year, those words chipped away at her. She grew quiet and withdrawn, and her self-esteem crumbled. Then she moved to Birmingham to study, and everything changed. There, she met the man who would become her husband. He didn't see what her relatives saw. He saw her. And his family welcomed her with open arms. "It's my husband and my in-laws who have actually built me up from the shell I used to be," she said. Today, Usha is 44. She lives in Wednesbury in the West Midlands with her husband and their two children. And she's turned her pain into purpose. She wrote a book about her life, Breaking Free - Unravelling the Story of a Toxic Life, to help others who've been made to feel worthless because of how they look, or by the people who were supposed to love them. They said no one would ever love her. They were wrong See less

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