Finding her Inner Star and realizing her power to change self-perception and become her own kind of beautiful, Krystian Leonard, founder of the non-profit Shining Scars, shares her powerful journey from being taunted and tormented as a young girl with visible scars, who now helps to empower children and teens to rise above the stigma of their scars.

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