Indian woman Khadija Khatoon never went to school and spent 24 years with her parents. The reason is in terrible-looking tumors that completely deformed her face, hiding her eyes, nose and mouth.

The preliminary diagnosis was neurofibromatosis. This is one of the most common hereditary diseases, characterized by the appearance of tumors in a patient. The incidence of the disease in men and women is the same, it is observed in about every 3500 newborns.

But the girl has one of the rarest forms of this disease. And despite her illness, Khadija says that she enjoys life and is even happy.

Khadija lives with her parents in Kolkata, West Bengal (India). When she was only 2 months old, her father Rashid Mulla and mother Amina Bibi realized that something was wrong with their daughter. The child was born with thick eyelids and could hardly open his eyes, reports the dailymail.

The girl was admitted to the hospital for examination, but even after 6 months the doctors could not do anything about her anomaly.

As she got older, the swellings on her face grew and soon covered her entire face. Khadija never attended school, but received knowledge from her three older sisters and two brothers.

Khadiji’s brothers work in a bakery and earn too little for their sister’s normal treatment.

The girl’s father does not have a permanent job, and the sisters have already married and left for other families.

Khadija has only hope for help from the state, but she does not want to undergo plastic surgery. Even when she was little, doctors said that with such an operation there is a great risk and she could die.