A mother-of-two who lost her eye to a deadly cancer has revealed she's now able to blow out candles through her empty socket.
Emma Cousins, 34, from Sheffield, has been living with one eye after undergoing an operation in June 2018 to remove an extremely rare tumour called a mesenchymal chondrosarcoma.
Medics told her she was 'the only person in England' with the cancer, which silently grew behind her left eye for 15 years.
It was only spotted when she complained to her doctor that her eye was beginning to bulge.
And on top of the surgery, Ms Cousins has been left with a small hole in her empty socket because her radiotherapy treatment to kill cancer cells caused parts of her skin to die.
But while waiting for an operation to patch up the hole, which is connected to her lungs, she has created TikTok videos of her using the hole to perform her newly-found party trick.
Ms Cousins taught herself to blow out candles through the empty socket, and has amassed support from thousands of fans.
Ms Cousins had surgery in June 2018 to remove a tumour that also meant her eye had to be extracted. As soon as she saw herself with one eye, Ms Cousins realised she looked 'different to anybody else'. She said: 'The first thing I can remember thinking was 'wow it doesn't look as bad as I thought''
The cancer was spotted after Ms Cousins (pictured per-operation with her son) went to A&E in 2018 after noticing that one of her eyes was bulging, leaving her with the sensation that it was being stretched
Since having the operation, Ms Cousins has received global attention on TikTok after sharing videos of using the hole in her empty eye socket, which is connected to her lungs, to blow out candles
One video received 15million views, with thousands of fans cheering her on. One person said: 'I would just like to say this is not scary but inspiring, unique and beautiful. Because this is who you are'
One video received 15million views, with thousands of fans cheering her on.
One person said: 'I would just like to say this is not scary but inspiring, unique and beautiful. Because this is who you are.'
Ms Cousins went to A&E in 2018 after noticing one of her eyes was bulging, leaving her with the sensation that it was being stretched.
Doctors assumed she had suffered a small bleed in her eye and referred her to see an optician, who asked to see selfies she had taken on her phone.
She had six years of pictures on her phone but the eye specialist wanted to see even further back.
Ms Cousins said: 'It was at that point I thought "oh no something is wrong". I managed to find pictures of me at 15.
'The optician said he didn't know for sure but that it looked like something had been growing behind my eye since I was 17.'
Looking at the images side-by-side, Ms Cousins said she noticed subtle differences as her eye appeared to grow and bulge over time.
An MRI scan revealed she had a large tumor growing behind her eye and a biopsy was taken to see if it could be saved.
Medics told her she had the rare form of sarcoma cancer, which starts in tissues like bone or
