But Brooklyn curry's life changed forever when her cousin's pit bull attacked her, the dog bit off her upper lip.

He was like hanging off of my mouth, we want to warn you the image after the accident is graphic, Brooklyn snapped a photo, looking at herself in the mirror,

you could see the fear in my eye just like, oh my God, that's what I look like.

Like how do you fix this?

How do you fix this?

I didn't realize he had taken off my whole lip.

This was Brooklyn last year, just a few weeks after being released from the hospital.

But look at her now, what an incredible transformation.

I think if you were to tell me a year ago today, I'd look the way that I did.

I wouldn't believe you, the 23 year old has had six reconstructive surgeries to repair the damage.

How does this feel?

I can feel it.

Dr Nicholas doe took skin and nerves from Brooklyn's arm and created a fully functional new upper lip in plastic surgery.

It's, we can't exactly recreate what was missing, but if we can mimic it enough, it should be almost indistinguishable to the general public.

After each surgery, he would make a mold of Brooklyn's face to track her heel and know what needed to be repaired next.

What has this journey been like for you.

Just having to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself and believe that what I'm seeing is not the final product and just loving myself,

regardless of how I look, Just from the inside out, Brooklyn is almost fully healed and love smiling from ear to ear and you haven't lost your smile.

I've gained it.