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 aged 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.
Frith Zerfahs, 44, was born with a port wine stain birthmark and grew up without representation around her.
At aged 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.
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00:00It's a birthmark.
00:03I was born with it.
00:05It's called a port-red stain.
00:07Yes, like someone spilt wine on my face.
00:10It won't fade, in fact it will get darker.
00:12No, it doesn't hurt.
00:15No one hit me.
00:16I was not burnt or scalded.
00:19I know laser treatment is available.
00:21No, it will not remove my birthmark.
00:24I wasn't bullied as a child.
00:26My birthmark doesn't define me.
00:29Having one makes me kinder to those that deserve it, and fiercer to those that don't.
00:34I am loved.
00:36I am enough.
00:38This is me, and this is how I drew myself when I was a child, and as a teenager.
00:43And this is how my children draw me.
00:45I wish I could have seen myself how they see me instead of wishing I was something else.
00:49But I'm grateful to them that I can see it now.
00:52Look what I found at Aldi.
00:57Representation.