Pregnant burns victim worried her child will be bullied

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<p class=”mol-para-with-font”>A woman left with severe facial burns after narrowly escaping an horrific fire as a baby has revealed her fear that her own children will be bullied because of her scars.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Annie Price, now 30, 광주 성형외과 from Mitcham in London, was rescued from a caravan fire on a hatching site by her grandmother when she was a baby, and went on to have a series of operations throughout her childhood to try and repair her life-altering scars.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Now engaged to her partner Sam and pregnant with their first child, Annie also told how she’s terrified her child will come to dislike the way she looks because of other people’s opinions – prompting her to consider more surgery 12 years after she last went under the knife.  </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>BBC Three cameras followed Annie as she travelled to Seoul in South Korea to seek advice from specialist surgeons about getting a nose job. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>In the documentary, Plastic Surgery Capital of the World, Annie says her biggest fear is that her child will ask her not to pick them up from school – because they are ashamed of the way she looks. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>While there, Annie had an emotional meeting with another burns victim, Song, who opened up about her own struggles with living with scars in a society where first impressions are ‘everything’ – and beauty is often valued over education.   </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”><span class=”mol-style-bold”>Scroll down for video </span></p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=””> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Pregnant Annie, who was rescued from a burning caravan as a baby, revealed in a BBC Three documentary her fears over how her child will react to her scars</p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=””> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Now 30, Annie had multiple surgeries as a child – the last one 12 years ago </p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=””> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Annie revealed her concerns about her own looks, and that she was contemplating having a nose job to ‘look better'</p></div><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=””> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>As part of a BBC Three documentary Annie visited Seoul in South Korea where she met with another burns victim to talk about growing up in the capital that valued beauty above education</p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Song, whose face was burned when she was injured in a gas explosion as a baby, told Annie how she was bullied as a child by her peers and ‘grew up lonely’.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>She explained that her own child had questioned the way she looked, and that his friends at school bullied him because of his mother’s appearance – prompting Song to ask Annie how she would cope if the same happened to her.  </p><div><div data-track-module=”am-related_carousel^related_carousel” data-track-selector=”.rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])” data-dm-rotator-rotate=”false” data-track-pos=”static” data-preferred-shared-network-enabled=”” data-dm-rotator-auto-init=”” id=”p-26″ class=”related-carousel with-fb-or-tw femail half” data-dm-rotator-active-class=”active” data-dm-rotator-page-count=”1.0″ data-dm-social-article-auto-init=”” data-dm-rotator-page-size=”1″> <div class=”rotator bdrcc”> <div class=”rotator-title”> <h2>RELATED ARTICLES</h2> <ul class=”rotator-pages link-xocc”> <li class=”rotator-prev”>Previous

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