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Truly
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00:00I was born with a condition that causes my arm to swell.
00:03Some of the worst things people have said,
00:05they called me the hole.
00:07I'm just a beautiful person.
00:09Nothing is ever going to be able to affect that.
00:13So today I'm going to be challenging myself
00:16to go to a lake in Vermont in the winter time
00:19and take pictures with no coat on.
00:24Okay, let's go.
00:27My name is Olivia Klopchen.
00:29I'm 17 years old and I was born with a condition
00:32that causes my arm to swell.
00:35I have a vascular malformation
00:37and more technically mine is a venous malformation.
00:41So my arm gets blood clots
00:44because my veins aren't regular veins.
00:48They're very wide and they constantly expand.
00:52I like to think of it as a hose.
00:54If the hose is too big,
00:56the water's not going to be able to get through it
00:59with a regular spout.
01:00So it's going to kind of slow down and my arm clots up.
01:05I was first diagnosed when I was only a couple months old.
01:08I was still a baby.
01:10And the doctors originally thought it was just a bruise.
01:13When Olivia was first diagnosed, it was very frightening.
01:24We had this little tiny child and had no idea really what was wrong with her.
01:31Some of the worst things people have said, it's mostly been online.
01:34I would think I was 12 and somebody messaged me who I went to school with.
01:39Out of pure anger, they just called me the Hulk.
01:43It was the Hulky, you look like Hulky.
01:46And I back then was very hurt by it because I'd never been called anything like that.
01:51I'd never compared myself to anything like that.
01:54I think that I'm just a beautiful person and that nothing is ever going to be able to affect that.
02:01What I see in the mirror now, I love myself.
02:04So I started posting on social media because I personally had never seen anybody with it before.
02:12I wanted to bring awareness.
02:14It's important for me because I felt lost when I was younger.
02:18Because the only people I'd ever seen with anything similar to me were in a hospital.
02:23And so putting myself out there and meeting all these people meant I wasn't alone anymore.
02:29She has blossomed into an amazing young woman.
02:34Very, very proud of her.
02:36She always stood up for herself.
02:38It's her normal, even though it's not everybody else's normal.
02:43So today I'm going to be challenging myself to go to a lake in Vermont in the wintertime
02:50and take pictures with no coat on.
02:55I'm really excited about the photo shoot.
02:58I mean, it's cold.
02:59I don't necessarily enjoy the cold, but I like to challenge myself to try new things.
03:06I want to achieve the message of spreading body positivity by taking these photos,
03:11showing that you can be brave no matter what you're doing,
03:14even if it's out in the cold and below zero weather.
03:17It's cold!
03:18Okay, let's go!
03:28So that was a really awesome experience.
03:36I've never done anything like that.
03:38It was super exciting.
03:41I would definitely recommend trying something more out of your comfort zone.
03:45The message I would like to put out to the world from my story is that everybody is beautiful
03:50and all of our differences define who we are as a person and we should stop hiding them.
03:56What I wish for in my future is to see others like myself putting themselves out there into the
04:02world and not being afraid of who they are.
04:16I think so.
04:16I wish I had a long time ago.
04:18I wish I could build up the world and I could be world- Michigan and what you're in the world.
04:19I have a little bit of your view.
04:21I wish I could move the world around here.
04:22I wish I could build up the world andятно know the world that I was in the world in the world
04:24and I could build up the world and I could be able to go through the world and go through their world and know where we're
04:26at the world and I could be able to come up for it in the world.
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