Woman who lost eye as child now has a bejewelled eyeball so she always sparkles
dailystar.co.ukREAD MORE: 'I swapped all my teeth for dentures but trolls say I'm attention-seeking'By the age of 25, she had surgery to replace the implant in her eye for a prosthetic eye for better movement and to look more realistic."I was never, ever embarrassed for having one eye or being self conscious about having a prosthetic until I saw myself in the mirror - the 'whole' of yourself," she said."It breaks you, I rather have nothing in my eye socket.
This is why I started to have my customised eyeball and I don't have to feel accustomed to the society."In one video, Rachel shows off her sparkly "diamond" prosthetic eyeball and tells people that it's doesn't hurt a bit when taking it off."I get these comments all the time saying 'this is my favourite eyeball yet, but it looks like it hurt' or 'doesn't that hurt?'," she said."I'm gonna show you why it doesn't."Having washed and sanitised her hands, she pops the bejewelled eyeball out of the socket and shows it up close in front of the camera.She continued: "This thing is so shiny, it's hard to even get my camera to focus on it but if you look, all of the stones are encased inside the prosthetic."And before you come for me, I washed the eye and lubed it up with some of these silicone eye drops that my oculars gave me and it goes - and we're ready to rally!"Viewers liked Rachel's custom-made prosthetic eye, with one saying: "You really put twinkle in your eyes...""Who wouldn't want a sparkly eye?" a second wrote and a third commented: "You look gorgeous, that is pretty much the coolest thing I've ever seen."READ NEXT:.
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