picture, the woman with abrupt facial features and a full beard is called "the ugliest woman in the world."
She had rejected 20 suitors during her lifetime. One of them, an American man, made a special trip to Mexico in order to marry her. After her death, she was still made into a specimen by her husband and exhibited everywhere for 153 years.
So are these men who are "obsessed" with her sincere? What is her ending?
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Today we are going to talk about the legendary life of Julia, the ugliest woman in the world.
The World's Ugliest Woman Meets "True Love"
In 1850, Julia, who was unemployed and living a homeless life, met Theodore Lanter, an American wandering performer.
She was moved by Theodore 's tenderness and began to wander with him.
When Theodore saw Julia for the first time, he was not frightened by her appearance like others, but took great care of her.
After getting to know each other for a period of time, Theodore proposed to let her stand on the stage.
In order to let Julia learn more knowledge and talents, he spent a lot of money to invite language teachers, dance teachers and vocal teachers to teach her.
Although God did not give Julia a beautiful appearance, it gave her super learning ability.
Smart Julia quickly learned two languages, English and Spanish, in addition to her mother tongue.
Especially her dancing and singing, she also learns them well.
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When Theodore saw that Julia was so talented, he was happy from the bottom of his heart, and quickly created a performance tailored for Julia.
Girl Experience
Julia has never received such attention and treatment since she was a child, so she is very grateful to Theodore. No matter what he asks her to do, Julia will obey unconditionally.
The reason why Julia was so flattered was mainly related to her appearance and experience.
Julia was born in the mountains of western Mexico in 1834. Her father was a scholar who studied wild animals in the forest.
Her birth did not surprise her parents, but instead brought unprecedented shock.
Because Julia looks a bit special.
She had a lot of hair on her body and her facial features looked like a gorilla, which led everyone to think that she was cursed by an evil spirit.
Folks even think that Julia is the child of her mother and an orangutan.
Because of her terrifying appearance, people avoid her, and her friends don't want to play with her. They even call her a "hairy girl" or a "female ape."
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Various imaginative ways to describe Julia, some even called her "the ugliest woman in the world".
In fact, Julia is only a patient with congenital genetic hirsutism, but she has to grow up under a strange vision, which shows how much damage this has done to her young mind.
Even her mother couldn't accept her appearance.
But the child was the flesh that fell from her own body. The mother could not bear the child being talked about like this, so she decided to take her daughter and leave her hometown.
Two years later, a Mexican herder accidentally discovered Julia and her mother in a cave.
The herders took the two to a nearby town, and little Julia was placed in an orphanage.
Although Julia has an abnormal appearance, with thick and hard long hair all over her body except her palms and soles, her gentle personality is very popular among the local residents.
Julia has gradually grown up, but her height is still very short, only 1.38 meters.
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Some experts came after hearing the news and studied her as a living specimen. They finally concluded that she was an extinct species.
Soon, Julia became a local celebrity because of her appearance.
After the local governor heard about it, he decided to take her home as a maid. Julia felt lucky because the governor took her in.
But when she was twenty, the governor's family decided to move, so Julia had to leave the governor's house.
She decided to return to the tribe in the mountains of Mexico, where she was born.
On her way home, she met Theodore, a man who changed her life.
He managed to convince Julia to let her take the stage, and her first performance was in London.
The tragedy begins
I have to say that Theodore is very good at marketing.
In order for more people to pay attention to and participate in Julia's performance, he also set up a large billboard on the streets of London.
The billboard reads ten bold characters: "Ladies with Beards and Long Hair."
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immediately attracted many viewers, and everyone couldn't wait to see the true appearance of this hairy lady.
Julia's first performance was undoubtedly a success, and it was a good start for subsequent performances.
The performance venue was crowded. Driven by curiosity, everyone bought tickets to watch the show.
Julia's performance did not disappoint them. They saw her in the center of the stage, wearing an ugly face, singing witty music and dancing exaggeratedly.
Imagine the scene at that time. I wonder if you in front of the screen would have the same feeling as me, that is: the picture is too beautiful, I dare not look at it.
When the people watching the performance saw this scene, they spontaneously clapped and laughed.
Of course, this applause was not out of affirmation of Julia's performance, but made them feel ridiculous and ridiculous, applauding this farce.
In their eyes, Julia is just a gorilla who can perform, talk and sing, and has no respect.
But Julia became an instant hit with this performance.
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Overnight, she received more than 20 marriage proposal letters from men, most of them businessmen, but they were all rejected by Julia.
At this moment, the gentle Theodore found Julia and proposed to her in the gentlest and purest language.
Julia was so moved that she thought she had found true love, and immediately agreed.
In 1859, the two entered the palace of marriage. Julia got her wish to marry this man who didn't care about her appearance, imagining that he could bring her a plain and happy life.
But the strange thing is that after marriage, Theodore has been avoiding Julia and does not like to be close to her.
always goes out for the night, and during the day she is forced to perform non-stop.
This made her puzzled. Was this Theodore who was tender to her in every possible way?
The Beginning of the Nightmare
Julia never imagined that Theodore, who saved her from misery, was actually just like those profit-seeking businessmen, or even worse.
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In fact, from the first time Theodore met Julia, he heard the sound of coins colliding in his mind.
As a wanderer, he knew that people with strange looks like Julia could easily satisfy people's curiosity.
Obtaining her is equivalent to owning a cash cow.
Therefore, he has been pretending to be gentle and considerate to gain Julia's trust.
And he taught Julia to read and write, not to cultivate her ladylike temperament, but to be able to understand announcements;
He taught her to sing and dance, not to cultivate the relationship between husband and wife, but to let her perform on stage.
When he discovered that other businessmen had sensed the huge business opportunities in Julia and proposed to her because of the performance, he felt a sense of crisis and worried that "the cooked duck would fly away."
So, he immediately expressed his affection to Julia.
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After the two got married, Theodore revealed his true colors and began to force Julia to travel around the world and perform overloaded performances.
even locked her up at home and would only let her out when performing.
With Julia's hard-working performance, Theodore made a lot of money.
From "ape star" to celebrity show
However, as time goes by, Julia's hirsutism becomes more and more serious.
's appearance has also changed. Her entire face is covered in hair, and her gums have proliferated, causing her lips to thicken and her upper jaw to protrude forward, like an ape.
This resulted in her having no sense of beauty, only pure ugliness, and people stopped watching her performances.
However, the shrewd Theodore is very good at understanding people's psychology.
He went to the hospital for a series of examinations on the pretext of taking Julia to see a doctor, and paid the doctor to change Julia's test results to half-human, half-ape.
Not only that, Theodore also made a fuss about the test results and specially produced posters to declare that Julia was actually an ape and not a complete human being.
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Such publicity, Julia, who had already lost her popularity, once again aroused people's curiosity , and they came to watch this " ape-man star" one after another.
For a time, Julia became a well-known star in Mexico, and Theodore also made a lot of money.
She gave birth to a son
Perhaps the smart Julia has already realized that Theodore only used her as a tool to make money, but she still hopes that Theodore can see her sincerity.
In order to prove her love for him, she was even willing to risk giving birth to a child for him.
In 1860, Julia gave birth to a boy in Moscow.
During the birth, Julia's pelvis was very narrow.
Her delivery was so difficult that doctors had to use forceps to deliver the baby, which ultimately resulted in severe lacerations.
After the child was born, it was discovered that he had inherited Julia's hirsutism and died more than 30 hours after he was born.
Julia also died due to postpartum complications.
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The love she pursued throughout her life and the kindness she persisted in became the most dazzling joke in the eyes of others.
made into a specimen
At this time, Theodore, who lost his wife and child, did not feel sad or depressed.
After their deaths, Theodore managed to preserve the bodies of his wife and children with embalming spices.
sold their bodies to a professor at Moscow University.
When the cunning Theodore discovered that the body could be preserved so well, he realized that he could still make profits from his wife and children.
managed to recover the bodies of Julia and her son, place them in a clear glass box and put them on display in London. After
, he continued to tour exhibitions with them in various countries.
What is even more disgraceful is that he even married a woman with a similar disease to Julia.
Let her sing and dance next to the box containing Julia's body, and continue to make money for him.
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After Theodore's death, Julia's specimens were changed hands many times and continued to be exhibited.
Until 1994, the Norwegian government, which could not stand it, suggested burying the mother and son, but it was opposed by scientists.
They insisted on keeping the body so that they could do research.
Fortunately, Julia’s story has not been forgotten.
In 2005, Mexican artist Laura Anderson Barbat launched a campaign to bring Julia home, and received official support from Mexico, causing a huge sensation at the time.
The artists hope that Julia can return to her hometown and be buried in peace, instead of being an exhibit from beginning to end.
After years of protests and efforts, Julia's body finally returned to Mexico more than 150 years later. On February 11, 2013, she returned to her roots and was buried at the place of her birth.
Epilogue
"The ugliest woman in the world" has a beautiful heart and good knowledge, but these still did not save her from tragedy.
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Her strange appearance made her a tool for her relatives to make money. She was treated as a "monster" and performed on the circus stage. She was not allowed to rest in peace after her death, and her body was exhibited all over the world.
Maybe she has never enjoyed the true love in this world. Just because of her face, she has tasted the coldness of people's hearts.
I hope everyone in the world can be treated gently...
