She was born without a jaw and mouth, her relatives gave her up because they couldn’t look at her, and this is what she is today: Everyone is amazed by the change and the skills of the doctors – Photos in the first comment.y

After the birth, Elena quit her job to take care of Darina, and Yuri fought for their daughter’s medical care. When a mother remembers the first moment she saw her baby, her body shivers.

“My eyes went black and I fainted. When I recovered from the shock, I remember Darina crying in pain while blood was flowing from her mouth,” she said in a 2019 media interview, adding that doctors had even advised her to leave the child in an orphanage.

“It’s terrible when you see a baby with a damaged head crying and you can’t help it. She cried day and night, and I cried with her,” Elena recalls.

However, she and her husband Yuri (49) did not want to give up the child, and dedicated all their time to searching and gathering help for their heiress, believing that somewhere in the world there was an expert who could help her and solve the problem.

“We don’t hide it from the world”

“We don’t hide her from the world. She goes everywhere with us. And my husband Yuri takes her everywhere. People told us to put a mask on her, and he told them not to look at her if they didn’t want to, but to accept her as she is,” Elena said of the difficult experiences they faced at that time.

But – there were more good and humane people, fortunately. When her story became public, it moved many people, and so a campaign was launched to raise funds for the operation.

Soon there was enough money in the account for Darina and Elena to travel to the UK, more precisely to London, for a special operation (the first of many) that would give Darina the face she never had.