I suffered horrific burns as a child but I’m about to enter Miss Universe
nypost.comChronicle Live. When she was 12 years old, the Newcastle native spilled boiling gravy on her thigh — which was followed by years of recovery procedures. “The skin on my leg started to peel off and it got infected,” the 21-year-old said. “For four days, it was burning through the tissue of my skin,” Lane recalled, as the gravy’s oil content classified the injury as a “fat burn,” which differs from being hit with hot water. “I needed skin grafts and they took the skin from my upper thigh to place on my leg.
It took five years to heal and there is still a scar there on my upper thigh,” she said. Now, on July 9, Lane will compete in her country’s top beauty pageant, Miss Universe Great Britain.
Onstage, she will model swimwear and an evening gown, as well as answer a question in front of the audience. She will also interview with the judges privately.Her mom, Sarah, encouraged her to enter her first pageant, Miss Teen Great Britain, in order to bid to build her confidence after her accident.
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