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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Emma Dunn & Saffron Otter

'Nasty bullies called me Mike Wazowski at school after losing my eye - now I'm a model'

A woman who was nicknamed 'Mike Wazowski' at school after losing her eye to a rare cancer now says she feels "beautiful" - and has signed to a modelling agency.

Katie Elliot, 20, had her right eye removed at the age of four when she was diagnosed with retinoblastoma after her mum spotted her pupil changing shape.

She was given the all clear a year later following treatment but had to adapt to life without vision in her right eye.

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