Girl Confined To Wheelchair Condemns Kylie Jenner’ s Description Of Wheelchair As Fashion Accessory

A high school student says she’s shocked but pleased about
the online reaction to her tweet in response to a photograph
of able-bodied TV star and model Kylie Jenner posing in a
wheelchair.
Ophelia Brown, 17, uses a wheelchair due to the complex
regional pain syndrome that she was diagnosed with at nine
years old.When she saw the Interview magazine image
of Jenner, Brown was upset and wrote a message on Twitter
that was directed at Kylie.

“Having an able-bodied person pose in a
wheelchair like it’s a fashion accessory, it
trivializes the concept of a wheelchair,” Brown
told CBC News in an interview at her
school Thursday.
“A wheelchair is not a fashion accessory, it’s not
a prop, it’s not something that I can easily get in
and out of. It’s not something that I want. It’s
something that I need to get to school, to go out
with friends, to live a normal life.
“It’s not something to be trivialized.”