Though I knew what to expect (this is a hot topic right now), I was truly stunned. That this woman could have been thought of as a failure and a joke before she began singing is a shame. Few doubt that those prejudices result from her physical appearance. She was heavyset and didn’t look like a model. Young girls in the audience were laughing at her, and as she mentioned in the lead-up to her singing, she’d never been kissed.

But boy did she have a good attitude, and wow were those some pipes on her. That was incredible, and it was wonderful listening to the judges come clean about their unwarranted skepticism - skepticism purely based on her appearance.

What do you think about this video and Susan Boyle’s experience?