Powerful Video Of People With Disabilities Reacting To Mannequins Of Themselves Will Make You Cry And Smile At The Same Time

Because beauty comes in all different shapes and sizes.

Pro Infirmis, a Swiss disability advocacy organization, created this moving video as part of a campaign for International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

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Here are the models standing proudly with their mannequins:

Athlete Urs Kolly, lost his lower right leg in an accident.

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Miss Handicap 2010 Jasmine Rechsteiner, kyphoscoliosis, multiple deformation of the spine.

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Actor Erwin Aljukić, brittle bone disease.

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Radio host and film critic Alex Oberholzer, polio.

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Blogger Nadja Schmid, ongenital spinal muscular atrophy.

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The mannequins were dressed and displayed in store windows on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse, the most expensive street for retail property in Europe, and the third most expensive worldwide.