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The World's Ugliest Woman |
Tuesday 2 April 2002 |
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In the 1850s, Julia Pastrana was billed as the ugliest woman in the world, in freak shows across Europe.
She was four and a half feet high, with most of her face covered with shining black hair and a double row of teeth in each jaw.
But was she exploited or did she use her looks as the means to empowerment and financial independence?
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