Dana Vulin had been wearing a mask for 2 years after a woman jealous of her beauty bathed her with methylated spirits and set her ablaze to burn to death in her own home.
According to DailyMail, the incident happened on 16th February 2012, and Dana has since then been wearing a mask and rehabilitating to return to her normal self even though it was almost impossible to get back her old 'pretty' face.
Ms Vulin was on her sofa at home in Perth, Western Australia on February 16, 2012, when a woman's voice said: '", Dana."
Natalie Dimitrovska, the jealous estranged wife of a man named Edin who Ms Vulin had met at a New Year’s Eve party, stood before her.
Dimitrovska hurled a bottle of methylated spirits over Ms Vulin, a convicted drug user, while she was reportedly holding a lamp used for smoking crystal meth.
"I was pretty much instantly on fire,' a weeping Ms Vulin told Western Australia's District Court. "I was a human fireball."
"The moment I was on fire, [Dimitrovska and a male accomplice] just laughed and ran out of my apartment," she added.Since coming out of a coma, Dana has suffered agonizing pain from her burns and has been forced to wear the pressure suit and mask between countless operations.
"I've been faceless and it makes you feel like a nothing and a no one," she said.
"I know who I am, but I'm beige. I don't have any expressions on my face, you can’t see my mouth, you can’t see my nose, you can literally only see my eyeballs, not my eyebrows. It makes me feel like a faceless nothing, that’s the best way to describe it."
Of the mask that has covered her face for so long, she added:
"I respect the s**t out of this mask, and I appreciate it, but I also hate its guts. Without it I couldn't be where I am right now, but if I had a choice I'd rather endure physical pain than wear this mask."Ms Vulin always took pride in her appearance before the attack and enjoyed having her hair and nails done regularly.
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| Dana Vulin (left) before the attack |
"Not one minute of my day is the same. Your exterior is a representation of your interior, and this is not me… my skin and my burns and my scars are obviously a part of me now, but this is not me. I’ve not been able to wear earrings, I had no hair so I haven’t been able to do anything with my hair, I’ve been fashion repeating for over two years."
"(When I look in the mirror) I see someone I know and someone I don’t know, does that make sense? It’s crazy what I’ve accepted as normal. It’s crazy that I've accepted wearing that mask all day and night normal, and having my face out as not normal and natural."The university graduate added:
"It’s your identity, so I think in order for somebody to heal inside you have to heal on the outside. I have the right to have my face that I was born with back. Everyone has the right to have their face."
On October 11 2013, Dimitrovska wept as she was jailed for 17 years for grievous bodily harm with intent.
In sentencing, Judge Bruce Goetze described the attack as being in the worst category of grievous bodily harm with intent. He said the attack was also premeditated as in the weeks leading up to the incident Dimitrovska had threatened to 'ruin (Ms Vulin’s) pretty face'.
Dimitrovska ran away after setting Ms Vulin on fire.
"It is really difficult to imagine how one human being could leave while another human being is on fire,’ Judge Goetze said.
"It is totally unimaginable how you could not put out the flames, or try to do so, or at least call for help. Instead, you laughed and ran away."
Speaking on Sunday Night, Ms Vulin said:
"I am a strong person, and more than anything that I've learnt in my burn is that I will never change and I know the person I am, and '’m confident in the woman that I am."
To add insult to injury, Dimitrovska has appealed her sentence with the decision to be determined in the coming weeks.
"I don't have a chance to appeal my life sentence - jail is nothing compared to an hour in the shoes that I fill," Ms Vutlin said.
Source: Daily Mail UK
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