Leigh de Vries Instagram pics

A WOMAN with a mental health disorder thinks she has a huge tumour across her face - but there is actually nothing there.
Leigh de Vries suffers from Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) which means she wrongly believes she is severely deformed.

BDD gives sufferers a preoccupation with flaws that are unnoticeable to others.

And now Leigh is hoping to raise awareness of her condition through a powerful video campaign.

Leigh de Vries Instagram pics

With help from make-up artist Shuane Harrison, the singer, 30, uses prosthetics to show the outside world what she sees when she looks in the mirror.

Made up to look like she has a facial tumour, she takes to the streets of her hometown of Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Her videos capture the way strangers react to the prosthetic tumour - a response Leigh believes she will get if she steps outside on a normal day.



In an interview with Dazed, Leigh explained that before the project she thought she was "so grotesque", worrying she would scare people and that children might scream at her.

Leigh claims the experience was a very positive one for helping her on the way to recovery.

She says: "It turned out to be incredibly cathartic, because when I took the prosthetic off it was the first time I ever realised that I was beautiful."

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