Scots mum wore make-up for 20 years to cover facial birthmark but kids helped her 'love' it

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A mum who wore make-up to "cover up" her birthmark for 20 years says having kids helped her "love" her difference as she didn't want to "hide" from them.

Frith Zerfahs, 44, was born with a port wine stain birthmark and grew up without representation around her. At the age of eight, she started having laser treatment to lighten the pigments in her birthmark and believes she was one of the first in Scotland to have this done.

She chose to have laser treatment herself aged 21 after strangers' comments made her feel she needed to "fix" it. But after meeting her husband, Peter Zerfahs, 47, and becoming a mum she realised she didn't want to "hide" from her four children - aged 10, eight, five and two.

Now Frith no longer wears make-up to cover up her birthmark and "loves" it. Frith, a police officer who lives near Inverness, said: "Becoming a mother changed my attitude towards [the birthmark].