With 15 months Asher Nash became famous, but not precisely for appearing in ads, but for the fight that his mother started on the internet after being rejected for an advertising campaign for having Down syndrome.
Megan Nash, her mother, sent some photos of the baby to a modeling agency, but they replied that they had not asked for a model with "special needs." After that, it was launched on social networks to raise awareness about the need to include children with different conditions in advertising.
Photo: Crystal Barbee Photography After what happened, the mother sent a petition to the firm OshKosh B'Gosh so that her son is considered a model in their advertising campaigns and seeing that the story was shared virally on Facebook and Twitter, the firm decided to contact the mother to have a meeting and meet Asher.
"I would love for OshKosh to meet my son and see what we see in him. I don't want them to use his image because of the uproar we are causing on the Internet; I want them to use it because they value it and believe in what could contribute to their campaign "“Children with Down Syndrome and other disabilities are incredible human beings and we want OshKosh to help change the perception of the world”
Photo: Crystal Barbee Photography Asher has already become a star even though he has not yet won a modeling contract. Whatever happens, your mother's courage to report the situation, made you somehow aware that A child with Down syndrome has the same right as any child to show up at a fashion casting, or whatever you want, regardless of your genetic condition. Because life is not about chromosomes.
Advertising is one of the many areas in which people with disabilities should be accepted, and in fact it is increasingly common. Without going any further, last year Jamie Brewer was the first woman with Down syndrome to parade on a catwalk in New York. An example that, fortunately, things are changing.
Photos | Meagan Nash (Facebook)
Via | 9news.com.au
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