They enrolled her in ballet classes and supported her passion for the art. Michaela’s new parents recognized her talent for ballet. Soon after the discovery of the magazine, an American family adopted Michaela, and she became the eighth of their eleven children, nine of whom were adopted. Once Michaela saw this she found hope and determination to one day become just like that ballerina. On its cover was a photograph of a beautiful ballerina en pointe. One day Michaela found a magazine blowing in the wind. There she was taunted and abused by the women who cared for the children. This caused her uncle to abandon her at an orphanage. In Michaela’s native land vitiligo was considered a curse of the devil. Michaela had vitiligo, a condition that causes patches of skin to lose its color. Rebels killed her father, and shortly after her mother died of fever and starvation. Michaela DePrince was born in war-torn Sierra Leone during the country’s decade-long civil war.
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