11. Cassandra Naud
When this young actress was born, her parents had to decide whether or not to have the large brown mole around and under her right eye surgically removed. Because serious scarring may have resulted from the operation, the parents decided against removal. Naud is happy that they did not remove the mole. The young Canadian-born dancer makes her living in Los Angeles, and she maintains that her birthmark has never prevented her from achieving her goals either in the workplace or in her love life. In 2015 she went public with her decision to keep her mole, and the news coverage–from Cosmopolitan to the Huffington Post–has validated her claim that her birthmark makes her stand out in a good way. Although she admits she was teased as a child, now she says her birthmark is a part of her, and she believes that people with birthmarks should be proud of themselves rather than embarrassed.
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