A Lifelong Ambition
Sydney V. Smith had a long-held ambition which she tried her best to achieve. She’d always wanted to be a “giraffe woman” since she was a child. She began obsessing over old National Geographic magazines while in middle school, particularly ones featuring ladies from the Kayan Lahwi tribe, which originated in Thailand and Burma.
The images of these women fascinated her, and she knew exactly what she wanted to accomplish even at that little age. She began simply by sleeping with cut-up coat hangers around her neck, and she refused to let anything get in the way of her dream. But before we can look at where she was heading, we must first look at where she came from.