Afghan girl shows off reconstructed face, talks life in US
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.
I remember when that issue of TIME was released and being horrified by the cover and her story. Thank you for the update. She looks wonderful and I hope her life is on track. She has more courage than I could ever dream of.