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The day I discovered I was beautiful
04 August 2008 - Grazia
After a childhood feeling like the ugly duckling, comedian Shazia Mirza, 31, went on a search for the definition of beauty. She never suspected she would find the answer in her own reflection.
As I tottered through the velvet rope at a top Liverpool club, I suddenly knew how it felt to be a WAG. There ws Alex Curran, dressed in a Miu Miu mini shift, and Bianca Gascoigne in a frock that left little to the imagination....
Shazia's column in The Guardian
Shazia's weekly column- Diary of a Disappointing Daughter is in The Guardian Weekend Magazine every Saturday.
Read it in the Silly Writings Section or www.theguardian.co.uk
Columnist of the Year
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