Woman Forced To Have Balloons Under Her Skin Looks Totally Different After Surgery

Arterial venous malformation (AVM) is a condition that causes unusual connections between blood vessels and can occur in many parts of the body. These vessels become tangled and can be life threatening. 
A South Dakota woman, 28-year-old Jennifer Hiles, has had to deal with AVM most of her life. Her unique case of AVM has not only threatened her life medically, it has affected her life socially as a parent. Jennifer has facial AVM, leaving her with marks on her face that people in public ridicule while she’s with her children. 
Luckily, Jennifer has just had a surgical procedure aimed at correcting her facial AVM and the results are stunning! 
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Here is Jennifer Hiles with her two daughters Marlina and Kiah. 

The large masses on her face aren’t actually a direct result of AVM but are caused by large medical balloons put in place to relieve some of the pain associated with the condition. 

Jennifer has suffered from AVM since childhood but, at first, doctors believed she only had a large birthmark.

This all changed when she almost lost her life..

In an interview, Jennifer’s mother Alfreda Simms said “She nearly died when she was 11 and had to be airlifted to the hospital. She was bleeding from her nose and lost a ton of blood.”

In school, boys would only go on dates with her in private and she was also repeatedly bullied. 

“I didn’t realize that I was so different until my first boyfriend,” she said in an interview. She added that “He would always talk to me, but then when we were in school, he would completely ignore me and talk to the pretty girls.” It wouldn’t be long until she found the man of her dreams, though.