Aesha Mohammadzai became the face of Taliban brutality against women after her

Aesha Mohammadzai became the face of Taliban brutality against women after her husband and his family hacked off her nose and ears when she tried to flee from the Taliban fighter whom her family had traded her in marriage to in order to settle a debt.

During the marriage-from-hell, the tortured 12-year-old was beaten, forced to perform slave labor and made to sleep with her husband family’s livestock.

Now three years after a shocking photo of her resulting disfigurement was splashed across the cover of Time magazine, the young Afghan woman can finally look in a mirror again and smile thanks to groundbreaking reconstructive surgery that helped rebuild her features.