Zena Cooper was born with a genetic disease, one of the consequences of which is vision problems. However, the truth about the mother of four children seeing almost nothing was revealed only recently.

Zena Cooper, 45, from a peaceful town in South Wales, was born with Marfan syndrome. It is a genetic disease that affects many systems and tissues.

When Zene was four years old, a routine check-up revealed vision problems in the child, the consequences of Marfan syndrome, which six out of ten people with this disease face.

The doctor prescribed her glasses with such thick lenses that Zena suffered a lot at school later on. The children were sometimes very cruel to her.

She did not want to tell het parents about the real situation, because she was terribly afraid that it would scare them.

When in class they ordered to color the squirrel, Zena confidently took the purple pencil instead of the orange pencil.

That incident and the fact that the girl did not see what was written on the blackboard led to her being moved to the first row. By the way, that didn’t help much.

‘As a child, I did not understand that I was different from others. Before, it seemed to me that everyone saw instead of people and judged food only by smell.

Years later, I felt myself in the world of the sighted, but it was too late to tell people that I could not see anything.

‘It’s hard to tell someone you’ve known all your life that you’ve never seen their faces,’ Zena said.

Cooper went to great lengths to make sure no one knew what was going on with her.

Thanks to her patience and tireless work, Zena was able to pass exams with honors and work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital.

At the age of 22, our heroine was a single mother of two young daughters, living in her own house and paying a mortgage.

Even the ex-husband of the British woman thought that Zena, like many people, just suffers from short-sightedness. At that time she was almost blind.

Zena did not inform about her illness and other lovers, from whom she had two sons.

Her health condition did not affect the upbringing of her four children in any way. Zena admitted that she had no problems with it.

Moreover, due to vision problems, the rest of her emotional organs have been sharpened, and this feature has helped the British woman many times. She recognizes children by smell.