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The Beautiful Amputee

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20 Aug 2018, 10:36

Marsha Elle didn’t wear a pair of shorts in public until she was 23 years old.
Now 25, she was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency, which causes a malformation of the upper thigh that makes one leg considerably shorter than the other. When she was 9 months old, she traveled with her mother from Haiti to the U.S. to receive medical care. She got her first prosthesis when she was 5.
“But at that time, they didn’t even have prosthetics that were my color,” she told HuffPost. “You’d just get a white one.”

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She remembers that her mother often disguised the prosthesis to protect Elle from stares and bullying when she was a child living in Florida. To hide it, she once wore a pair of pants underneath a white dress during a childhood musical performance. Her foot was amputated in middle school, which allowed her more mobility, but her new leg took some getting used to.
“It was the first time I was able to bend at the knee. I was more mobile, but it was a completely different feeling,” she said. “I would fall a lot in the cafeteria, and my lunch would come with me. It was a hard transition.”
Music was Elle’s “release and a place of comfort.” At 16, she spent the summer at a camp for teenage amputees, which changed the way she saw her ability and potential. She began releasing music in 2010 and noticed that the more vulnerable she was about her experiences, the more people she attracted to her story.

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Now there’s nothing keeping Elle from embracing her body and sharing her powerful and unique perspective on self-acceptance and confidence as a longtime amputee. Last year she decided to pose for photos in a swimsuit. She never expected to have the confidence to share the photographs. But when she did, her life changed completely.
“So much positive energy came back to me,” she said. “That’s when doors actually started opening up ― when I started being more transparent and vulnerable and honest about what’s going on. People of all ages and abilities could relate.”

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No one would challenge her for calling periods of her life “uphill battles.” But the relentlessly positive Elle corrected herself when she used the phrase in an interview. Instead, she referred to difficult periods as “series of triumphs on top of triumphs over time.” Here she shares her journey toward self-acceptance and offers advice to young amputees that we could all use.

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21 Aug 2018, 09:06

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Love the way they matched the colour of her prosthesis to that of her skin, but it looks like a very uncomfortable fit. Wonder how she manages to walk with it. Are there any vids? :beer:



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21 Aug 2018, 10:59

Mollyduker, Yes, there is a sense that the stump and the prosthesis are separated :beer:

Marsha Elle was chosen, amongst a few amazing individuals, to share her dream of being a pop star, as part of a MTV special honoring Dr. Martin Luther Jr.




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