Meagan
Barnard is a 25-year-old college student who is constantly bullied because of her legs.
She told INSIDE EDITION: "One person
asked me how can you live with yourself when you look like that?”
When she was 15 she developed a condition called
Lymphedema which caused fluid to build up in her right leg making it larger
than her left leg.
“It was absolutely devastating to get the
news that this was the way I had to live for the rest of my life. To having
this leg being twice the size of my other one that didn't allow me to dance anymore,” she said. “It didn't allow me to be comfortable in my
own skin.”
She spends an hour each day using a special
compression machine to relieve the pressure in her leg and finding clothes she
can fit into is just one of her challenges.
She has to buy large pants online because in
stores she says she only sees skinny jeans.
Barnard is so self-conscious about her leg,
she hides it from everyone.
When she started a relationship with her
boyfriend Rob, the co-ed tried to hide her leg from him for nine months.
He'd already noticed and was so in love that
it didn’t matter.
“I just laid in wait until you were ready,”
he told her. “I had come too far.”