19 year-old Ciera Swaringen, from Rockwell, North Carolina, was born with oversized mole-like marks covering more than two-thirds of her body, with the largest one stretching from her navel to her lower thighs.
She was diagnosed with Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevus, a rare skin condition which affects around one in every 500,000 people in the world and poses a high risk of cancer development.
Despite constant bullying and cruel taunts from her peers over the years, Ciera has grown to embrace her condition and love herself for who she is.
“Teenage boys are usually the first ones to comment when they see me,”she said. ‘They say things like, ‘You look like you’re dirty, take a wash.”
“But I’m so proud to be different and, at the end of the day, we all have something about us that’s unusual, whether it’s on the inside or the outside.
“Everyone is born to look different, and we should all feel beautiful in our own skin,” She says
For the 19 year-old, removing her birthmarks has never been an option even though doctors say operating is not impossible.
This brave teen has continued to brush off negative comments from staring eyes, by staying strong and being true to herself with the love from her family and her new found friends on social media with peculiar skin conditions such as hers.
Ciera’s story is a reminder that we exceptionally beautiful in our different ways and in every condition we find ourselves be thankful.

Source:http://www.post-nigeria.com/see-shocking-photos-of-teenage-girl-born-with-a-thousand-birthmarks/

Hmmmm!

Despite the not too pleasant a skin, she still keeps smiling.

She is really unique indeed, if na another teenager she would have commited suicide.

WTH!!

Dermalotogists can help her.

48noble:
She was burnt by d gods in her village...

a very foolish comment, no offence.

She seems not to be disturbed by her looks and thats good.a lesson to many as well but i disagree with her exposing her body.

firstEVA:
a very foolish comment, no offence.

A very stu.p.id remark no bones

firstEVA:
a very foolish comment, no offence.

I agree with you

Eeyahh

It must b rili hard 4 her
TnkGod she's strong enough 2 handle it
#saynotobullies

querry the mother






Meanwhile, pregnant women stop walking in the sun to avoid this kind of children.

I don't even know what to type...

How are we sure this is not a medical condition.

firstEVA:
Dermalotogists can help her.

MosakuAW:

Hmmmm!
Despite the not too pleasant a skin, she still keeps smiling.
She is really unique indeed, if na another teenager she would have commited suicide.

Maybe, just maybe both her parent were drunk in Orijin before doing it

It seems her parents did a good job, her self-image is still intact. Amazing girl

It's good she has a good self-image.It must really be hard.I once saw a Nigerian girl with something similar.

firstEVA:
Dermalotogists can help her.

It's too large.

I hate people's prejudice about birthmarks. I don't have any, but my daughter has one on her face and is already suffering from unwanted attention (though she is ony a two-year-old). I think that if she asked me to remove it when she's olde I would do it.