Maurice Tillet
Russian born, French raised wrestler Maurice Tillet probably had a really hard time growing up, and it’s easy to imagine all the mean things he was called in his lifetime. As his career started developing, the media were quick to call him from “French Angel” on good days, to “The World’s Ugliest Man” on bad ones. Some people even suggest that he might have been the inspiration for Shrek the ogre. True or not, this picture reminds us of the importance of compassion no matter who we encounter.
Maurice Tillet
The Kidnapped Girls
This photograph has a shocking backstory. As history writes it, the woman shown here was one of two European girls that were kidnapped and gifted to a Native American chief. He raised them so well as if they were his own kids, and the pair grew up as part of the tribe. The face tattoos are meant to show their rite of passage, and their initiation into the community. We can only have the imagination of what the experience must have felt like.
The Kidnapped Girls
