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"I covered my birthmark for 34 years - but now I don't want to hide from my kids"

2024-10-18 168 Dailymotion

A mum who wore make-up to "cover up" her birthmark for 20 years says having kids helped her "love" her difference as she didn't want to "hide" from them.<br /><br />Frith Zerfahs, 44, was born with a port wine stain birthmark and grew up without representation around her.<br /><br />At aged eight she started having laser treatment to lighten the pigments in her birthmark and believes she was one of the first in Scotland to have this done.<br /><br />She chose to have laser treatment herself aged 21 after strangers comments made her feel she needed to "fix" it.<br /><br />But after meeting her husband, Peter Zerfahs, 47, and becoming a mum she realised she didn't want to "hide" from her four children - aged 10, eight, five and two.<br /><br />Now Frith no longer wears make-up to cover up her birthmark and "loves" it.

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