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TERRIFIED of catching a skin disease people shout at Mohammad Umar to go away like an annoying stray animal. But to his wife, he is a loving kind man. Ever since Umar, 62, started growing small lumps on his hands at 14 his body has slowly been ravaged by tumours. Now, he has benign tumours covering his entire body. ‘I’m a good man,’ he said. ‘And I can work hard but my looks are a problem to other people. No one likes looking at me or being near me. It’s ruined my life.’ Umar, from Hyderabad, India, was born healthy. His mother had lumps on her hands but no where else. Without realising she had passed on a more agrresive disease. She died in 2001. ‘I was born with soft smooth skin,’ he said. ‘I didn’t realise what they were when they started growing at 14 but then my mother noticed they were the same as her hands and took me to see a doctor.’ But as the years passed Umar’s condition progressively got worse. By the time he was 20 he had random lumps growing on numerous parts of his body. He said: ‘I knew it was going to get worse. I knew it was a nightmare to come.’ Sadly, two years ago Mohammad Umar died in a road accident.

A woman in India born with a black birthmark covering half of her face admits she’s been left devastated by men refusing to marry her due to her condition. Naseem Banu, 27, from Jaipur, in Rajasthan, northern India, was born with a severe birthmark which covers the right half of her <a href="https://rumble.com/v33z6i-she-refuses-surgery-for-her-birthmark-too-proud-of-what-god-gave-her-to-cha.html" target="_blank">face</a>. After constant bullying during her school years, her adult life has seen her struggle to find a job. She's watched all her family and friends marry, while she has been rejected over and over again. She said: ‘I don’t go anywhere because I fear unwanted attention from people. They stare, they ask questions and make harsh comments about my condition. How can I go ignore them? ‘I wish I had someone to help me cope. I wish I had a husband who could tell me everything will be ok but no one wants to marry me.’ She didn’t think of her birthmark as something odd until her schoolmates kept asking what was wrong with her face. The birthmark can neither decrease nor increase, it stays the same all the time. Whenever she applies makeup and cream on her face, the condition hits her all over again and makes her wonder why God has done this to her. She would have accepted on any other part of her body but not her face. The cause of most <a href="https://rumble.com/v4medd-my-birthmark-makes-me-unique-shake-my-beauty.html" target="_blank">birthmarks</a> is unknown. Most birthmarks are not inherited. Many folk tales and myths exist about the causes of birthmarks, but none of these stories have been proven to explain the true causes of birthmarks.