A brave student says she is proud of her scars after a tragic house fire at the age of two left her fighting for her life. Marina Bogdanova, 19, said doctors didn’t think she would survive the ordeal after she suffered second and third-degree burns over 65% of her body.
She has told her story to inspire other burn survivors and has launched a charity to help others who have been through similar experiences.
Marina from Massachusetts, USA, was just a month away from her second birthday when tragedy struck. On 2 October 2002, her mum Olga Belyajkova, 38, went to the grocery store and left her with her biological father at their home in Moscow, Russia, according to her mother’s recount.
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