A brave mum whose nose “collapsed” when a minor injury caused by her dog triggered a rare condition that “ate” her own face has revealed an astonishing transformation after three years of hell.
Jayne became a reclusive “hermit”, suffered cruel taunts in the street and was forced to quit the job she loved at M&S because she couldn’t bear to be seen by strangers.
But she has overcome her shattered self-confidence after undergoing surgery to have a lifelike prosthetic nose fitted.
She reveals the incredible new look tonight on Davina McCall’s heartwarming This Time Next Year where, by the magic of television, viewers see the results of 12 months of tribulations in the blink of an eye.
Just 11 people in every million suffer from the rare auto-immune disease that ate away at Jayne’s body tissue and turned her life upside down.
Doctors told her the damage to her nasal passage was so severe that she would never regain her sense of smell or taste food again.
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But, after an operation that she called a “roaring success”, she has stunned medics by defying their prognosis and is now enjoying everything from how “amazing” a cup of tea tastes to “the smell of my kids’ farts”.
A year on from their first meeting, Jayne tells Davina: “Last time I saw you I was like a hermit and was hardly going out.
“I’m now volunteering for a charity and I’m taking groups of little old people out for some teas, meeting strangers and loving my life.
“I couldn’t do that before. It has given me my life back.”
She says her partner and children have given her “amazing” support, adding: “They’ve run me baths, my husband has learned to cook after 20-odd years.
“They’ve been my absolute rock. I couldn’t have got through it without any of them.
“Incredibly, something they (doctors) weren’t expecting, I can actually smell again. Everything tastes amazing.”
Davina tells her: “You’re like a different person. It’s so nice to see a blossoming of confidence come from within you. It’s lovely.”
Speaking of the moment Jayne’s life spiralled into a nightmare, husband Martin says on the ITV show: “In April, 2014, our lives changed for ever.
“We had a dog, a huge Neapolitan mastiff, and she just happened to paw Jayne’s nose and then her nose started pouring with blood.
“Over an 18-month to two-year period it has gone from completely swollen to having collapsed completely into her face.
“What’s important to me going forward is that she’s happy.”
Her son, Todd, says: “Mum’s condition has definitely affected her confidence. I feel like she can’t be all she wants to be.”
Jayne describes how her nose became unsightly when one side collapsed, followed by the other, leaving a sunken gap between the two halves.
“It’s called saddle nose and now I can’t smell at all,” she tells Davina in the studio 12 months earlier.
Jayne underwent chemotherapy and was prescribed a cocktail of steroids and antibiotics, which left her fatigued and “ballooning”.
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“People will actually say, ‘Oh my God, what’s happened to your nose?’ when you’re out with your kids,” she says.
“I don’t tend to go anywhere on my own. I tend to stick to the same places and I’m quite nervous with lots of strangers.
” You forget what you looked like, you forget how you used to be.
“It’s just vile not to be able to recognise yourself in the mirror and have people stare at you when you go out, and there’s nothing I can do about it.”
* This Time Next Year is on ITV at 8pm tonight.