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How well do you know Mary Ann Bevan?
Considering the fact that Mary Ann Bevan died in 1933, very few people alive today would be old enough to know her, but truthfully having researched her history, I wished that I had the opportunity to meet her. Given the moniker, the “world’s ugliest woman” it’s obvious that those who gave her that nickname were judging her alone by her appearance, certainly not by her strength of character. For her beauty may not have been visible to the naked eye but to those who gave her a chance and saw her from within, she was strikingly beautiful.

Born in December 1884, Mary Ann was one of eight children born to an impoverished family in Plaistow, East London. She ultimately was trained to be a nurse and at the age of 29, she married Thomas Bevan and she went on to become the mother of four children. At the time of her marriage, few could argue her outer beauty matched her inner beauty. Eleven years into her marriage, her husband died leaving her to care for her four young children.

Here’s the dilemma. Mary Ann developed a condition known as acromegaly, a condition where the body produced too much growth hormone. Anyone who was into professional wrestling during the ’70s and 80s or ever saw Fezzik in the movie Princess Bride would recognize the name “Andre the Giant”. He, too, had acromegaly.


The condition can lead to enlargement of the hands and feet and it could result in the enlargement of facial features. In Mary Ann’s case, she became more masculine and her disproportionate features would have been deemed unattractive. Acromegaly is painful to those who are afflicted as the bones and the tissue grow at a rapid rate. Given her unsightly appearance, obtaining gainful employment was difficult and she was left with no means to support her children.

Determined to do anything she could to support those children, she swallowed what little pride she had left and she took a job in a freak show under the title “world’s ugliest woman”. Mary didn’t like putting herself on exhibition. She was shy and she didn’t want to be separated from her children. Given her family was at stake, she accepted the job and placed her children at boarding schools. Mary Ann started her tour of the U.K. working for famous circus showman P. T. Barnum. She was so successful though that Barnum quickly put her on a ship for America. Almost immediately Mary Ann was on the cover of every publication in New York, being heralded as the “ugliest woman on Earth”. Mary Ann became the star of Barnum’s “freak show”, overshadowing incredibly tall people, midgets, conjoined twins, and bearded ladies.

Not everyone was entertained by Mary Ann Bevan, though. In 1927, leading neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing wrote to Time magazine, complaining that Time Magazine and other publications should not be laughing at the physical diseases that were afflicting Mary Ann Bevan or anyone else.

I certainly agree with Harvey Cushing’s assessment. It is sad that this nation ever had a P. T. Barnum freak show. It is even sadder that, because of her appearance, Mary Ann Bevan couldn’t find gainful employment that didn’t exploit her illness. However, as horrible as those shows were at least she was able to support her family.

The years of touring, along with her affliction, took their toll on Mary Ann. She died in 1933 at the age of 49, a broken woman. She had lost her entire wealth to bad investments and her developing a drinking problem. Mary Ann Bevan was buried at the Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery in South London.

For the people of Great Britain, personally, I would be proud to call her one of my own. I'm proud we share the same first name. Very few would have the fortitude and strength of character to endure what she did.

Today, acromegaly is a condition that can be treated and controlled.

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Yemi my Yoruba girlfriend still remains the ugliest ever seen by mankind.

Corridon:
Yemi my Yoruba girlfriend still remains the ugliest ever seen by mankind.

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Kimiso:
i guess you just wan chop and dump her

Na her large nyash still de attract me.

She has yam leg or is she hairy chested?

Corridon:
Yemi my Yoruba girlfriend still remains the ugliest ever seen by mankind.

Ive seen one, na ogun babe. In fact that babe is hideous

TheNiceGuy:
She has yam leg or is she hairy chested?

She has both of them. Chai my Yemi is damn ugly but I can't resist her killer curves.

Then she's not Yoruba as you claimed but your fellow Ipob.

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TheNiceGuy:
Then she's not Yoruba as you claimed but your fellow Ipob.

Hairy chest and yam leg is not attribute of Yorubas, we know people who with those attributes

An Ilesha prince can't date girls outside Yoruba land. As a heir to the throne I have to date our own. Yemi is from Ile Ife. She is too ugly but I still like her.

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Corridon:
Na her large nyash still de attract me.

fear God, what if you go blind before you dump her

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Corridon:
Yemi my Yoruba girlfriend still remains the ugliest ever seen by mankind.

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Corridon:
Yemi my Yoruba girlfriend still remains the ugliest ever seen by mankind.

have you fùcked her

Corridon:
An Ilesha prince can't date girls outside Yoruba land. As a heir to the throne I have to date our own. Yemi is from Ile Ife. She is too ugly but I still like her.

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TheNiceGuy:
She has yam leg or is she hairy chested?

Igbo Jews are the ones who have pattent to yam legs and hairy chest


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Corridon:
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Corridon:
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