New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

The girl who can’t smile ‘There Isn’t Anyone Like Me’

Standing on the sidelines, trading banter with ease as she interviews top Super Rugby players for her 40,000 online followers, Tayla Clement is in her element.

It’s a long way from her earlier years when she was relentlessly bullied for her appearance, leaving her so severely traumatised she suffered up to 10 seizures a day and made multiple attempts to take her own life.

Tayla was born with Moebius syndrome, which affects the nerves in her face so it’s not possible

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