On
February 16, 2012, Dana Vulin, 28, was doused with methylated spirits
and set on fire in her own home by a woman who was jealous of her beauty
and feared she was having an affair with her husband. Dana suffered 3
degrees burn to her body and has been wearing facemask for two and half
years. But after 30 months of agonising reconstructive surgery and more
than 30 procedures, unveiled her new face on Sunday Oct. 5.
'Hello,
Dana. Natalie Dimitrovska, the jealous estranged wife of a man named
Edin who Ms Vulin had met at a New Year’s Eve party, stood before her.
Dimitrovska hurled a bottle of methylated spirits over Ms Vulin, a
convicted drug user, while she was reportedly holding a lamp used for
smoking crystal meth.
'I
was pretty much instantly on fire, a weeping Ms Vulin told Western
Australia's District Court. 'I was a human fireball, The moment I was on
fire, [Dimitrovska and a male accomplice] just laughed and ran out of
my apartment,' she added.
Since
coming out of a coma, Dana has suffered agonising pain from her burns
and has been forced to wear the pressure suit and mask between countless
operations.
'I've
been faceless and it makes you feel like a nothing and a no one. I know
who I am, but I'm beige. I don't have any expressions on my face, you
can’t see my mouth, you can’t see my nose, you can literally only see my
eyeballs, not my eyebrows. It makes me feel like a faceless nothing,
that’s the best way to describe it. I respect the s**t out of this mask,
and I appreciate it, but I also hate its guts. Without it I couldn't be
where I am right now, but if I had a choice I'd rather endure physical
pain than wear this mask'" she said.
Her attacker, Dimitrovska was jailed for 17 years on On October 11 2013.
Dana strutted down the catwalk at the West Australian Ballet Centre on Sunday to unveil the beginning of the rest of her life.
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