A Ukrainian Mom who survived a suspected assassination attempt has posed for the cover of Playboy and become a symbol of resistance in her home country.
She was struck by bullets while driving home through the capital with her three children last year. This was just three days after Russia invaded Ukraine.
A TV presenter, Iryna Bilotserkovets, underwent months of reconstructive surgery to rebuild her face.
Speaking to the magazine about seeing herself in the mirror for the first time after treatment, she said: “An eye missing, tubes sticking out everywhere, hair shaved off from surgery.
“Stitches, scars, wounds everywhere; I was just Frankenstein’s monster. My jaw had shattered, like a twig.
“I no longer have a pretty face, but the rest of my body is beautiful.”
Ms. Bilotserkovets said she was left with a missing eye, a broken jaw, and scars over her body and had to undergo four operations.
