Mol Melanie Gaydos Has a Rare Geic Disorr—And She's Takg Over the Fashn World

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• MOL MELANIE GAYDOS HAS A RARE GEIC DISORR—AND SHE'S TAKG OVER THE FASHN WORLD
• WHO IS MELANIE GAYDOS? HOW SHE'S BREAKG BARRIERS IN THE FASHN INDTRY
• HOW MOL MELANIE GAYDOS IS REFG BETY WH THE FASHN INDTRY
• MOL MELANIE GAYDOS OPENS UP ABOUT ECTORMAL DYSPLASIA, IS BETIFUL AND INSPIRG
• HOW METALHEAD MOL MELANIE GAYDOS IS FIGHTG TO REFE BETY

MOL MELANIE GAYDOS HAS A RARE GEIC DISORR—AND SHE'S TAKG OVER THE FASHN WORLD

Melanie Gaydos don't look like other mols. Gaydos, 28, liv Seattle now but grew up on the East Coast.

"Unlike the typil mol orig story, Gaydos wasn't "disvered" by anyone. While she still fds gigs on Craigslist, Gaydos has moled for major avant gar publitns like i-D, Galore, and Love magaz.

WHO IS MELANIE GAYDOS? HOW SHE'S BREAKG BARRIERS IN THE FASHN INDTRY

Gaydos seems extremely unperturbed—and remarkably, she's been like that sce she was a kid. Gaydos also name drops albo mol Shn Ross and Wnie Harlow, a former Ameri's Next Top Mol nttant turned super star who happens to have a sk-pigmentatn disorr.

""Every year seems to broan and bee a ltle more open-md, " Gaydos says of the dtry.

HOW MOL MELANIE GAYDOS IS REFG BETY WH THE FASHN INDTRY

"Next up, Gaydos is flyg to Berl for fashn week, then wrappg up a film shoot Paris. "It mt seem so silly to Gaydos that other women worry about their thigh gaps, or the way their hair curls, or the soft roll of fat around their belli: "Everybody has their own securi...

LiftyleLisa KlappeMelanie Gaydos is a 28-year-old mol livg Seattle who is changg the dtry standards the fashn was born wh Ectormal dysplasia (ED), the blanket term for a group of closely related ndns wh over 150 different syndrom intified. Afterward, Gaydos began posg for photographers she found on Craigslist, and has sce moled for i-D, Galore, and Love magaz. Gaydos has sgle-handly acplished all of this bad-assery wh no molg agency ntract and no, Gaydos' Journey Has Not Been Whout StggleThe mol endured bullyg elementary school and is even open about once havg suicidal thoughts.

And Her Days Are Lookg Incredibly BrightGaydos is a by recently wrapped up a mic vio LA for an artist that nnot be revealed at the time of publitn, will travel to New York this weekend for three days to meet wh old clients, and will then hop on a plane to shoot for Berl Fashn Week.

MOL MELANIE GAYDOS OPENS UP ABOUT ECTORMAL DYSPLASIA, IS BETIFUL AND INSPIRG

I'm tired jt om wrg that, but Gaydos' voice gave away her excement on the phone. She's got dreams of not only molg for the Alexanr McQueen fashn hoe one day (he was one of the spiratns for her to start her reer), but also to ntue changg mastream bety Gaydos ghed over the phone about how much she loved workg wh photographer, Tim Walker, and all of the projects she has g up, one of the most important jobs for her is simply shakg thgs up the fashn mol scribed how she feels about people gravatg to her. When to refg the word "bety, " Melanie Gaydos is at the foreont of spiratnal mols.

But spe the way her disorr has affected her appearance, Gaydos is nfint how she looks — so much that she cid to bee a a new terview wh Cosmopolan, Gaydos opens up about her reer as well as her ndn, explag that she's never felt any securi about her appearance.

"It's fely a great outlook, and 's clear that Gaydos's perceptn of herself helped her ga nfince wh the molg dtry. From there, she started appearg several alternative publitns and has even walked the nway at New York Fashn Week — a victory that, acrdg to Gaydos, other people told her she'd never 's experience n serve as a lson to all, whether we're mols or not. Hopefully the fashn dtry will beg to employ more mols who refe bety standards, but Gaydos is already seeg improvements.

HOW METALHEAD MOL MELANIE GAYDOS IS FIGHTG TO REFE BETY

No one is more betiful and spirg than mol Melanie this terview -- part of a seri lled The What's Unrneath Project, which asks people to take their cloth off to prove "style is not the cloth you wear" -- Gaydos speaks bravely and ndidly about her journey through ectormal dysplasia, a geic disorr that affects the por, hair, teeth and nails. The disease rulted her unrgog 30-40 surgeri as a young woman, and on top of that, Gaydos stggled wh an alholic fay, abe and suicidal thoughts. "But about three years ago, Gaydos found an outlet molg.

Melanie Gaydos, an experienced young mol wh a strikg, unique look, was posg outsi a "very ld" abandoned sanatorium at her very first big shoot: a mic vio for German dtrial-metal juggernt Rammste, directed by famed Spanish fashn photographer Eugen Recuen.

Gaydos was a big fan of both, havg disvered Rammste and Recuen almost simultaneoly when she was 11 or 12. Heavy-metal mic like Rammste's and visual art like Recuen's "dark but super-refed and betiful" photography helped Gaydos fd herself as a kid growg up "super-suburban" Tmbell, Connecticut.