The woman with 'butterfly skin' says she feels 'blessed'

Assya Shabir was born with epidermolysis bullosa, external, known as butterfly skin due the fragile tissue.

Doctors told her parents she had 24 hours to live - but as she approaches her 30th birthday, Assya, from Birmingham, says she feels "blessed".

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