How people deform themselves. Derailed life: a series of shocking photographs that captures portraits of women whose faces and bodies are mutilated by acid

Daily at modern world one of the girls is exposed abuse, contempt, humiliation and violence from relatives and friends. A series of shocking photographs featuring portraits of women whose faces and bodies were mutilated by acid, few people will remain indifferent. After all, physical pain is nothing compared to mental pain ...

“I am amazed at the strength of the will of these women with a difficult fate, pretty shabby in life, who survived a terrible tragedy at the hands of loved one without losing faith and hope. They managed to overcome their fear and now, without hiding tears, sadness and joy, they remember with a shudder in their hearts the day when their life changed dramatically ... "- He speaks Ann-Christine Woehrl the author of this series of photographs, where each photograph is a separate sad story that touches the soul.

Nehehaari, 25 years old. Indian state of Andhra Pradesh

“After getting married, I began to endure daily humiliation and bullying from new family. Moreover, not only my husband bullied me, but also his parents, who not only insulted me, but also beat me. I endured and was silent, swallowing bitter tears, but one day I decided to object, for which I paid. It happened five years ago, when once again my relatives began to offend me. In the midst of the scandal, one of them doused me with some kind of liquid, which immediately began to burn the skin. But apparently this was not enough for them, and then they decided to set me on fire ... Having received many burns and mutilated limbs, I miraculously survived. It still remains a mystery to me how I was able to survive this tragedy, which deprived me of a lot. Now I am 25 years old and I still hope that one day I will be able to regain my happiness and maybe regain my former appearance ... "

Nusrat, 32 years old. Pakistan

“Before getting married, my husband's family made me a condition that my brother, in turn, should marry their daughter. But the brother chose another woman. As a result, I had to pay for other people's feelings and love, at the cost of own life. When I was sleeping, my husband's parents poured acid on me. At first I couldn't understand what happened and why my clothes stick to my skin. But when I realized what had happened, I ran screaming into the yard, where my husband was waiting for me with a new portion of acid. He splashed the contents of the vial in my face and yelled, "She's gone crazy and decided to kill herself!" I woke up already in the clinic, where they helped me come to my senses and gather my strength ... "

Farida, Bangladesh

“My husband was an avid gambler and drug addict. Once he lost so much money that our house was taken from us for debt. I said I couldn't live like this anymore and I was leaving him. In the end, he doused me with acid ... "

Flavia, 25 years old

“I worked in a call center, so I had to deal with a lot of people on the phone every day. One day, when I was on my lunch break, I decided to take a break in the lobby. A man passing by splashed something hot in my face. At first I thought it was tea, but when the skin became unbearably burned, I realized that it was acid. Later, I found out that it was one of the regular customers who turned out to be mentally ill ... "

Chanteu, 38 years old. Cambodia

"I had an affair with married man. Upon learning of this, his wife, along with her relatives, doused me with acid from head to toe. This is where my quiet life ended. I don’t know what I would do if it weren’t for the support of my mother, who doesn’t leave me a single step ... "

Makima

“The neighbor wanted to marry me, but I refused him because I did not have any feelings for him. He was very angry, threatened, beat, and then one day, when I was returning home, he splashed acid in my face ... "

Sokneang, Cambodia

“I worked as a singer in a club. One evening, an unfamiliar woman approached me, sizing me up with a look, she turned around and seemed to be about to leave, but after that, she turned sharply and splashed some kind of liquid in my face. I woke up in the hospital, where I found out that I had been doused with acid. As it turned out later, the woman who did this to me turned out to be jealous wife one man who came to the club every day to listen to me sing ... "

Christina and Moses

“When I was 16, I was attacked by ex girlfriend my husband Moses. She could not understand and accept that he had abandoned her, so she poured acid on me, deciding to take revenge on him in this way. And if it weren’t for my little daughter and husband, I don’t know how I could live on ... "

cidru

“When I was 15 years old, my brother and I stayed overnight at his friend's family. At night, when I was sleeping, I felt that my brother's friend started molesting me. I screamed, tried to break free, but he hit me. His mother ran into the room with a jar in her hand, she was shouting something to her son, waving her arms. I woke up in the hospital…”

Pain, fear, despair, death... are the words that make each of us start up. The world is cruel and unfair, but despite all this, it is worth fighting and living on at all costs. is direct proof of that. Each picture captures short story about how it turned out further fate people who …

This list will tell about ten unfortunate people suffering from severe deformities. Some of them with the help modern medicine were able to live more or less normal life. Some of the stories are tragic, others are hopeful.

10 Rudy Santos
Man is an octopus

9. Manar Maged
two-headed girl

8. Minh Anh
The boy is a fish

Ming Anh is a Vietnamese orphan who was born with an unknown skin condition that causes his skin to flake massively and form scales. His condition, as expected, was provoked by a special chemical(Agent Orange), which was used by the US military during the Vietnam War.
This condition is associated with constant overheating of the body, so it becomes extremely inconvenient for a person to “wear” the skin without regular showering. The same orphans orphanage They called him "fish".

Ming used to be abused by staff and other children living in orphanage. They tied him to the bed and prevented the boy from taking a shower to “remove” his old skin.
When Min was just a child, he met Brenda, a 79-year-old resident of the UK. Now she travels to Vietnam every year to see him. Over the years, the woman came to the boy and became his good friend.
Brenda did a lot to improve the boy's life in the orphanage. She convinced the staff not to tie him up when the another attack, she also found him a friend who goes swimming every week with the child, which is now Min's favorite pastime.

7. Joseph Merrick
Elephant Man

Probably the most a famous person on this list is Joseph Merrick, the elephant man. Born in 1836, the Englishman became a London celebrity and later gained worldwide fame.
He was born with Proteus Syndrome, a condition that causes unusual growths of tissue on the skin that cause the bones to deform and thicken.
Joseph's mother died when the boy was 11 years old, and his father abandoned him. Thus, he left home as a teenager, then worked in Leicester, and later became a showman. He was extremely popular and at the peak of his popularity got his stage name: "man - elephant."

Due to the size of his head, Joseph had to sleep sitting up. His head was so heavy that he could not sleep lying down. One night in 1890, he tried to escape into the kingdom of Morpheus "like everyone normal people", and sprained his neck in the process.
The next morning he was found dead.

6. Didier Montalvo
Turtle Boy

Didier was born in Colombian countryside with congenital melanocytic virus, which contributes to the fact that birthmark grows at an incredibly fast pace throughout the body.
As a result of this illness, the birthmark became so huge that it covered Didier's entire back. Peers nicknamed Didier "turtle boy", because the incredible size of the "mole" was very similar to a turtle shell.
Apparently Didier was conceived during an eclipse, because locals considered it "the work of the devil." For this reason, he was prevented from interacting with other children and banned from attending the local school.
When British surgeon Neil Bulstrode found out about Didier's problem, he went to Bogota, where he operated on the child and completely removed the ill-fated "mole".

When the operation was performed, the boy was barely six years old. It was a real success, because the specialists were able to remove the entire birthmark. After the operation, Didier was admitted to school, he began to live a normal and happy life.

5. Mandy Sellars

Mandy Sellars from Lancashire, UK, was diagnosed with the same diagnosis as Joseph Merik - Proteus syndrome. This resulted in Mandy's legs becoming incredibly huge, with a total weight of 95 kg and a diameter of 1 meter.
Her feet are so big that she orders custom-fitted shoes for herself, which cost about $4,000. She also has a personalized car that she can drive without the help of her legs.

2. Dede Koswara
Man is a tree

Dede Koswara is an Indonesian man who most suffers from a fungal infection called epidermodysplasia verruciformes of his life. It causes the growth of large, tough fungal growths that look very similar to tree bark.
Over time, Dede became extremely uncomfortable using his limbs, they became so large and heavy. The fungus grows throughout the body, but manifests itself mainly on the arms and legs.

In 2008, Dede underwent a course of treatment in the USA, as a result of which 8 kg of warts were removed from his body. After that, a skin graft was made on the face and hands. Unfortunately, as a result of the operation, it was not possible to stop the growth of the fungus, so another surgical intervention was performed in 2011. There is no cure for Dede disease.

1. Alamjan Nematilaev

1 The Hilton Sisters
Violet and Daisy Hilton

These sisters are Siamese twins. They had a common circulatory and nervous system. This meant that they experienced one pain for two. The sisters were sold into slavery by their midwife mother, who greedily took advantage of their misfortune. They sang, danced, played various instruments in the circus. Their slave owner took all their income for himself, and forbade them to communicate with anyone. In the end, one lawyer helped them get out of the shackle, and even bought all the money they earned. The sisters went on to work in show business and at their peak earned $5,000.

2. Wild men from Borneo

These "wild people" were actually doppelgangers, mentally handicapped dwarfs who had no hope of a job other than entertaining circus goers. At the age of 26, they were bought from their birth mother by a man named Lyman Warner. They were taught acrobatics, dances with which they performed in front of the audience. Enslaved by the Warner family, for fifty years they continued to bring wealth to this family.

3. Doll woman
Lucia Zarate

Lucia was born in Mexico in 1864. She weighed 8 ounces and was 7 inches tall. She weighed less than a kitten. To this day, she is the smallest woman on Earth. Arriving in the US at the age of 12, she was the highest paid midget at the time ($20 an hour). Unfortunately, she died at the age of 26 on a train.

4. Texas giant
Jack Earl

Al had a condition called acromegaly. Jack Earl performed in the circus along with famous circus performers. He has also starred in films such as Jack and the Beanstalk (guess who?). Despite the fact that it was difficult for freaks to find work, Earl showed everyone that you can use an extraordinary appearance in any profession. He was a salesman for a wine company, and later became their PR representative. In addition, he sculpted, painted and wrote poetry (his book Long Shadows was published in 1950).

5. "Hunchback"

Quasimodo is not fictional character. The eponymous Hunchback of Notre Dame in Victor Hugo's story actually lived in Notre Dame. A British explorer found fragments of a memoir that spoke of a "humpbacked stone carver" who worked in Hugo's cathedral. It is not difficult to understand why he was given the nickname "Le Bossu" - the Hunchback.

6Mule Faced Woman
Grace McDaniels

This woman was born with a facial deformity that made many people hate to look at her. She was declared "the ugliest woman in the world". This is also a kind of achievement. Despite her appearance, she was very a good man. Grace married, she had a child who did not inherit her facial features, but he became a drunkard and an outcast of society.

7. Jo-Jo, dog-faced boy
Fedor Evtishchev

The boy, like his father, suffered from a rare disease - hypertrichosis. His father lived alone in the forest, away from people, so as not to listen to their ridicule. To earn money, he performed in the circus. After Fedor was born, they began to tour together. Soon his father died, and the boy performed for a long time in shows hosted by the famous American entrepreneur F. T. Barnum. Like a trained dog, Fedor could bark and growl on command, but he was not a dog. He could speak English, Russian and German.

8. Julia Pastrana

This girl suffered from hypertrichosis - her face and body were covered with black coarse hair. Outwardly, Julia resembled a gorilla. Her height was a little over 137 cm. Despite her deformity, Pastrana danced well and was very kind and friendly. She had a husband, Theodore, who acquired her and taught her everything that she surprised people in the circus. Soon Julia gave birth to a child who lived only 3 days, and she herself died 5 days after this event. Theodore mummified the corpses of his wife and child, later their bodies were put on display in various Panic Rooms.

9. Schlitzie
Simon Metz


Schlitzie was very popular in the circus. He was a microcephalic - a man with a small skull and a small brain. His child's head sat awkwardly on the shoulders of an adult. His brain was about 3 years old, yet he sang and danced like a 10 year old. Already as a physically adult, he starred in the film "Freaks" (1932), then - "The Island of Lost Souls" (1933). After his death, Schlitzie became a real legend.

10. Caterpillar Man
Prince Randian


Prince Randian was an amazing man - he wore sleeveless clothes and no socks. He had only a head and torso and looked like a paralyzed man, although he could light a cigarette with one mouth. He had a wife, with the help of whom he learned to move. Fame came to him in 1932, after episodic role in Tod Browning's Freaks. Prince Randian lived to be 63 years old.

website- Today there are many ways in which you can transform your appearance. In some countries, numerous piercings and tattoos are considered traditional and sometimes mandatory. But people often go beyond the norm, to the point that they become almost unrecognizable, roughly speaking scary. Despite the hellish pain, they go for it and feel the most beautiful and unusual. Do you consider it normal to get tattoos on the pupils, grow horns on the forehead, cling piercings to the whole face, body, and much more? the site made a selection of photographs of people who did not care about the opinions of others and became what they are now, abandoning their natural appearance.

1. Demons on the tongue

2. Vampire eyes, snake tongue

3. Assorted

4. Thorns in the head

5. Demon in disguise

6. Piercing wherever possible and impossible

7. I don’t even know what to call

8. He must be a snake

9. It's called "Donuts in the head" or body modification.

10. And she probably wanted to be like a tiger

11. Tattoo on the horns, piercing on the eyebrows

12. Before and after