{"id":457,"date":"2026-01-05T16:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:18:41","slug":"the-journey-of-xueli-abbing-from-abandonment-to-the-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"The Journey of Xueli Abbing: From Abandonment to the Runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/608537370_122286908558022969_1730656117941089982_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"512\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/608537370_122286908558022969_1730656117941089982_n.jpg 371w, https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/608537370_122286908558022969_1730656117941089982_n-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Abandoned as a baby because of her albinism, Xueli Abbing could have disappeared into statistics and silence. Instead, a Dutch family brought her into a home where difference was cherished, not feared. They named her \u201csnow\u2011white beauty\u201d and meant it, teaching her that her pale skin and fragile eyesight were not shameful defects, but part of a rare story only she could tell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/608537370_122286908558022969_1730656117941089982_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"512\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/608537370_122286908558022969_1730656117941089982_n.jpg 371w, https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/608537370_122286908558022969_1730656117941089982_n-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When a designer invited her to model \u201cperfect imperfections,\u201d Xueli stepped into a world that had long pretended people like her did not exist. Vogue Italia\u2019s pages turned her from an invisible child into a global symbol of inclusion. Now sixteen, she uses that visibility to fight for those still in danger, insisting on language that honors their humanity. To Xueli, beauty lives in voice, courage, and character\u2014proof that what nearly destroyed her became the very light she shines back into the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned as a baby because of her albinism, Xueli Abbing could have disappeared into statistics and silence. Instead, a Dutch family brought her into a home where&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":838,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}