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Since she was 10, she begged her mom for an otoplasty, which is a type of plastic surgery that pins back your ears, making them less noticeable. And this summer, with help from the Little Baby Face Foundation, her pleas were answered. The charity, whose main focus is to provide free corrective surgery to young children born with facial deformities, offered to give her the surgery she wanted for free. But that wasn’t all; they also reduced the size of her nose and the changed the shape of her chin.

Now, Nadia can’t wait to go back to school—this fall, she begins her freshman year of high school. According to the Huffington Post, Nadia loves her new look. And though she knows that she should have accepted how she looked prior to surgery, she doesn’t regret it because she knows the bullying would never have stopped.  

We’re thrilled that Nadia is thrilled, but we can’t help but question the message this sends to girls everywhere facing the same treatment, and the bullies who are making them doubt themselves. Should you change your appearance in an effort to be perfect and stop critics in their tracks? Or should you stand strong and be proud of who you are, regardless of what anyone says—after all, you were born this way, right?

You decide. Tell us what you think in the comments, girlies.

by Brittany Taylor | 2/1/2016