who have been diagnosed with MDP Syndrome , a rare metabolic disorder that prevents fatty tissues from being stored underneath the skin.
Changing Faces, a charity which provides support and promotes respect for everyone with a visible difference, launched the campaign I Am Not Your Villain to call on the film industry to stop using scars, burns, marks and other visible differences as a shorthand for villainy. He said: “As I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed it’s sometimes hard for the younger generation to understand that there are people with facial differences.
The British Film Institute has signed up to the I Am Not Your Villain campaign and has committed to stop funding films in which negative characteristics are depicted through scars or facial difference.