{"id":223881,"date":"2020-05-22T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=223881"},"modified":"2020-05-22T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T17:22:19","slug":"model-missouri-down-syndrome-disability-define","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/model-missouri-down-syndrome-disability-define\/","title":{"rendered":"Model from Missouri with Down syndrome won’t ‘let her disability define her’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grace Strobel is an up-and-coming 23-year-old model from St. Louis, Missouri. Her pictures exude confidence, joy, and light. Viewers are first struck by these qualities, and then by something else. Grace is one of a small but growing number of models who have Down Syndrome.<\/p>\n

When she was born, well-meaning healthcare professionals warned Grace’s parents about all of the things that she wouldn’t be able to do. But her parents Linda and Jeff had other ideas. “We didn\u2019t want to look at Grace as an accumulation of things wrong with her. We wanted to see how she could develop in every aspect of her life,” Linda told the National Catholic Register<\/a>. “There were no different expectations for her than for our younger child [Laney]. It was always a big focus for us to have her develop her full potential, whether language, academics, healthy diet, exercise, social life \u2026 you name it, we were working with her.”<\/p>\n

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So excited to be featured in Radiant Magazine ! Link in bio for full story ? . . @radiant_mag #radiant #grateful? #downsyndromemodel #blessedisshe #bohostyle #hypebae #ootd #ootdfashion #beautyaddicts #faith #fashionista #fashion #positivevibes #theluckyfew #gratefulheart #covergirl<\/a><\/p>\n

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