Chrissy Steltz, 27, from Milwaukie, Oregon, was shot accidentally at close range by a friend at a party in march 1999.
The shot blew a huge hole in here face where her eyes and nose used to be.
Mrs. Steltz went into a coma and spent six weeks in hospital.
Doctors said it was a miracle she was not killed but the blast left her badly disfigured. She was also blinded and lost part of her hearing.
Mrs. Steltz, who married last year and has a one-year-old child, wore a sleeping mask to cover the hole but has now been given a prosthetic replacement 11 years later.
Doctors used photographs of her as a child to create the mask as they thought she would look like now.
Read more at The Telegraph
