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Zara Hartshorn: Teenager Who Looked 60 Has Facelift to Combat 'Benjamin Button' Syndrome

Written By admin on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 | 12:35 AM

 

A facelift at the age of 16 sounds like vanity gone mad – but for Zara Hartshorn it gave her a life as a normal teenager, the Sunday People reveals today.She was a youngster hoping for love like the others but her tender skin looked ­twisted and ­wrinkled because of a rare ­condition.

With prematurely ravaged ­features and gaps in her teeth she spent years enduring kids’ taunts of “monkey” and “granny”.But today, thanks to pioneering surgery, the bullies are no more than an unpleasant memory.

Zara has found the fella of her dreams. She no longer feels out of place with her friends and is ­looking forward to life with her sweetheart Ricky Andrews.With her looks ­transformed, she hopes to open a beauty salon.

Recalling the moment all the ­bandages came off, she said: “When I saw myself it was mixture of surprise and happiness.“Growing up I never thought this day would come. I thought I would be the same for ever.

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