A professional dancer has embraced her individuality after refusing plastic surgery to remove a giant birthmark on her face. Canadian beauty, Cassandra Naud, 22, loves her unique appearance and even credits her birthmark for making her memorable in the dancing world. The pretty brunette, from Alberta, Canada, who was once told by a casting agent to digitally erase her birthmark from her headshots, says: 'My birthmark is a huge part of me. “It makes me unique and memorable, which is especially important for the career I’ve chosen.'
HOTSPOT MEDIA - LETHAL BIRTHMARK NEARLY SUFFOCATES GIRL: Zoe Mitchell when she was two-weeks-old .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
Meet the real life anime girl who looks like a living cartoon character despite never going under the knife .
A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .
Gabrielle Dale, 26, was subjected to seven years of coercive control and physical abuse at the hands of her violent boyfriend Sean Owen, 29 .