Earlier this month, MnkenzeeMeaux and her husband-to-be, Bryan Ballard, booked a photo shoot to celebrate their recent engagement. And they decided to hold a1ceremony next month.
The beautiful pictures they2on the Internet looked just as one would3: a good-looking young couple hugging in the forest.4, halfway through the photo shoot, the young bride-to-be surprisingly5the wig (假发) she was wearing and showed her6beauty — bald head and all.
Like 6.8 million other people in the US, Meaux has alopecia, a condition that causes partial or7hair loss. She spent most of her life8her condition by wearing wigs,9this time she decided to take this courageous step to10millions of others to accept their own — little hair or no hair.
Meaux wasn't always that11. After she was diagnosed with alopecia at the age of eight, she12years of bullying (霸凌). She was so painful that she13all hope of ever feeling beautiful again. Even after meeting her future husband, it took her over two months to tell him of her14.
And Ballard did what anyone should do — he15the woman he loves for who she is and helped her to also accept herself and see herself as16for the first time in a long time.
"He has helped me to be brave and realize that17is not what makes you charming and is not what makes people love you. It is truly all about what's on the18," says Meaux. "He has shown me that the people who love you do not19whether or not you have hair and the ones who do are not worth your time or your love. So this is me, the20me."
