Sharp shoulders, slim figure, girly outfit. From the back, Katya is an ordinary schoolgirl. But when she turned around, we were taken aback. Deep wrinkles …
Only clear eyes betray true age. But it becomes creepy that a 16-year-old girl with such a cute surname - Nezhentseva - has such an unnaturally old face! Katya is in trouble: premature aging syndrome. This is how she was born …
The girl and her mother traveled around the country for a long time, looking for a clinic where they would agree to help. And now they are in Moscow, where Katya is preparing for the first plastic surgery in her life.
- Katya, when did it start?
- I have a congenital disease. Therefore, there were no strong experiences, as if I began to age abruptly. Only my face is aging, but my body is young, normal.
I am the first child in the family. There is also a younger brother and sister, they are all right … Mom, when she gave birth to me, at first did not suspect anything - she had not seen newborn babies before … And when they brought me home, my grandmother said: “Look at her face, something it’s not like that.” At the age of one, they began to drag me around to all the doctors, but the doctors diagnosed me and said that they could not help.
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I grew up and my face grew old. And when I went to school, I began to feel that I was not like everyone else. I began to look closely at myself, to ask my mother. And then they told me about my illness.
- Are you resigned?
- Mom always calmed me down, and I learned to live with it. And now I am even ironic, they say, what a rare disease I have, there are twenty of us like that all over the world! Those who love me don't tell me anything about my appearance.
I live in Novy Urengoy, everyone knows me there and everyone is already used to the fact that I have such problems with my face. And when I go somewhere, I notice expressive looks on myself. When I was younger, it was worse. It can be seen that my clothes are for children, and my face … I have a slender figure, it happened that a guy from the back called out to me, and when I turn around, then … well, you understand.
But in Novy Urengoy there were young people who like me. In the end, the main thing in a person is the soul.
SPECIALIST COMMENT
- Katya has a rare disease - premature aging syndrome with damage to facial tissues. The internal organs and body correspond to the physiological age of the girl,”Professor Alexander TEPLYASHIN, director of the Beauty Plaza clinic, told KP, where the girl will be operated for free. - It is difficult to compete with this disease, but it is possible. Patients with this diagnosis have poor blood clotting, the tissues are more rigid, which makes it difficult to carry out the operation. However, we have already operated on such people and achieved successful results. Katya needs a complex of surgeries, in particular, plastic surgery of the face, eyelids, transfer of adipose tissue to the face, reconstructive surgery on the face … I am sure that after all the procedures she will certainly look prettier!