When Svetlana was only three years old, a terrible accident left her with burns on her body. After years of emotional and physical trauma, here's how she made peace with herself.
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00:00When this accident happened, I was only 4 years old.
00:06We had electricity in our house, and we used candles.
00:14My mother went to the store, it got dark, I lit a candle and decided to burn a thread on my dress.
00:23I lit a thread, and the dress flared up.
00:30My name is Svetlana, I'm 18, my body is covered with burns, and I work as a model.
00:44I was in a coma for 4 months.
00:50They had to do a skin transplant, but my mother was a donor.
00:56She was in a coma, and they transplanted my skin.
01:03I found doctors who were willing to help me get rid of the burns, but I couldn't do the breast transplant.
01:10Then I learned to walk and talk again.
01:14I was a disabled person until I was 7 years old.
01:19I was in a coma because my mother was bullying me.
01:24She beat me up every day, cut me several times with a knife, and drowned me.
01:33I went to the police, filed a complaint, and three years later I was taken to an orphanage.
01:41It became easier to live in an orphanage, I could sleep in peace.
01:45No one strangled me at night, no one broke bottles.
01:48But still, there was some kind of violence, children were humiliated because of the burns.
01:53Sometimes they beat me up.
01:56They called me Frankenstein's burner.
01:59They could push me, they could hit me.
02:02In principle, no one communicated closely because of this.
02:06That is, I was a real outcast.
02:08I wanted to be a model when I was a child.
02:11I watched all sorts of glossy magazines, there were such beautiful girls.
02:15I thought, oh, damn, this is so cool.
02:18I went to a modeling agency that talked to us in the city, well, a modeling school, to be taken.
02:24I wasn't taken.
02:28When I was 7 years old, I went to the orphanage.
02:32I was taken.
02:33I wasn't taken.
02:38Recently, in St. Petersburg, in the spring, I had a photo shoot.
02:42I wanted to come and do it myself.
02:44In the evening, I came up with the idea that I should try it.
02:47I realized that I liked it.
02:49I'm not a podium model, but a photo model.
02:54This is enough.
02:56It helps a lot to deal with the complex, to apply, to accept yourself.
03:01After this photo shoot in St. Petersburg, it was very loud.
03:05Different photographers began to write.
03:10They wanted to cooperate with me.
03:12They wanted to do a photo shoot.
03:14So it went, let's go.
03:24There are people who need my help.
03:27They see that I was able to overcome myself, to overcome this violence of society.
03:32They ask for my advice, and I help.
03:35I would advise all girls who suffer from low self-esteem to think about the fact that something needs to be changed in this life.
03:44You can't live like this all your life and hate yourself.
03:53You can't live like this all your life and hate yourself.