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Madeline Stuart
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Madeline Stuart, a professional model with Down Syndrome.
Introducing 18 year old Madeline Stuart, a professional model with Down Syndrome. Find out what it has been like for her family and how social media has played a part in her career.
Move To Include
Madeline Stuart
Special | 3m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Introducing 18 year old Madeline Stuart, a professional model with Down Syndrome. Find out what it has been like for her family and how social media has played a part in her career.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipThe first model that we're going to bring out, not only is beautiful and lovely and now a global superstar, but she's a friend of mine back home, but beautiful and inspirational.
Madeline Stuart.
Madeline is fresh off of New York Fashion Week.
Madeline is not only an inspiration for people that are affected by, you know, families with special needs, but really anybody that has challenges to overcome in life.
Right.
And she's somebody that's saying, I can do this.
I have a heart condition.
And with all the challenges that I have in life, I'm becoming a PE professional model in an environment that really isn't conducive to, you know, to necessarily being inclusive.
And now all of a sudden those barriers are being broken down and instead of, you know, people being negative towards it, just the opposite, people are embracing that and you're seeing people respond.
And the reason why the world was ready for it, right?
The time was right.
The world was ready for now.
So always had an impact on people.
She has a way of touching people's hearts.
She doesn't judge people.
I just think that society as a whole, I think they want to hang on to something good.
I mean, there's so many people out there with people with disabilities in their lives.
And once upon a time without social media, you were very isolated.
Like when Madeline was born 18 years ago.
I was so isolated, I didn't have any friends with disabilities.
There was no one in my family that had children with disabilities.
And it was just like her and I now with social media and everything else.
Everyone's connected like everyone has someone with a disability in their lives to some extent, whether it's a cousin or a second cousin or a sister or an aunt.
But everybody I talk to, I don't think there's been one person in the last five years that hasn't said to me, Oh, my aunt had Down's syndrome or my sister's got Down's syndrome, or My niece is the most important person in my life because she brings this love to the family.
The next time you see someone with a disability, don't look at them as being awkward or different.
Go up to them and say hi because I probably feel a little bit alone.
But yeah, don't just think that you can't talk to someone because I look a little bit different.
They probably want you to talk to them.
So go and say hi.