Kiara Duprey wasn’t expecting applause. Perhaps, she expected some understanding.
When her daughter was born without arms or legs, instead of receiving support, she was met with an avalanche of cruel comments: that she was selfish, that she never should have had her, that she had caused irreparable harm to a life that had not even begun.
The trolls didn’t mince words. Neither did Kiara when she responded.
On her social media, she firmly defended every decision she made from pregnancy through the day she held her daughter for the first time.
She spoke of love, of the way people’s perceptions change when you truly get to know someone rather than just their condition, and of a motherhood that needs no one’s permission to be valid.
Her daughter did not come into the world to apologize for existing, and neither does she intend to apologize to those who only know how to judge from behind a screen.