At 39, DeKalb Disability Activist Melissa Blake is Modeling in Her First Runway Show — At New York Fashion Week

As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion.

Unfortunately, fashion wasn’t much interested in her.

Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle disorder and stands a little under 4 feet tall, couldn’t find jeans or dresses in her size. Paging through Glamour and Cosmopolitan magazines, she didn’t see a single person who looked like her.

“That would have been a game-changer for me,” said Blake, a freelance writer and disability activist who lives in DeKalb.

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