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Wyandotte's Miss Michigan Named Spokeswoman of Foundation for Rare Syndrome

The Beautiful You MRKH Foundation offers support and increases awareness of a syndrome that causes woman to be born without a uterus.

Miss Michigan USA, Jaclyn Schultz, of Wyandotte, was recently named spokeswoman for a foundation that offers support to woman with a little known syndrome called Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH).

Schultz, 24, said she is one of about 75,000 women in the United States to be born without a uterus, in an interview with WXYZ.com.

Beautiful You MRKH Foundation creates a supportive community that partners with health care professionals to increase awareness and empower women of all ages with MRKH to feel beautiful, just as they are, according to the foundation website.

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One of the foundation's founders, Amy Lossie, an assistant professor at Purdue University, said Schultz has an opportunity to raise awareness of MRKH from her platform as Miss Michigan USA.

Schultz contacted Lossie and Beautiful You co-founder, Christina Ruth, not long after the foundation began, and the two decided she would do well representing the foundation.

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Lossie said Schultz "is passionate and enthusiastic about increasing awareness of MRKH" and "is a role model for all women with MRKH, but especially for younger girls, who are often devastated after their diagnosis."

"By seeing an accomplished, intelligent, confident young woman talk openly about MRKH, Jaclyn (Schultz) is demonstrating that MRKH does not define who you are," Lossie said. "She is showing us that there are good days ahead and that although MRKH can be hard, you are so much more than your diagnosis."

The foundation reminds woman, affected by MRKH, they are beautiful, just as they are.

Schultz was crowned Miss Michigan USA in September 2012.

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