Ten years after being set alight in a brutal attack, Dana Vulin has shared her incredible recovery.
The 36-year-old from Perth was doused in spirits and set on fire by a jealous woman who wrongly accused her of sleeping with her husband in 2012.
Dana suffered horrific third-degree burns to more than 60 per cent of her body in the attack and has endured years of lengthy rehabilitation that included wearing a compression mask on her face and enduring more than 200 surgeries on her body.
Now, on the tenth anniversary of the brutal acid attack, Dana has shared an incredible video showing her remarkable recovery.
“March 2022, 10 years after injury. 36 years in age. Never give up,” she captioned the clip that shows her standing in a hallway in a piece of red lingerie.
Images of her horror burns and the progression Dana has made over the years that followed then popped up before the clips then go back to Dana again today.
In the caption, Dana went into more detail about her recovery, explaining the footage was “completely raw” and hadn’t been edited in any way.
“This isn’t to sexualise myself but more to show other survivors and people that any thing is possible,” she wrote.
“It may not be for everyone but no one is. I am so proud of how hard I’ve worked on my body and feel the strongest and fittest I’ve ever felt in my life.
“I’m proud of my scars and have learned to love them. I’m a glass half full kind of person. On a positive note because of my scars, I can’t get saggy.”
Many of Dana’s 31,000 followers were quick to commend her for being a source of “light, love and hope”.
“What an amazing recovery. Wishing you the best,” one said.
“Amazing, such strength and determination,” another applauded.
While one said: “You are amazing. Inspirational and so beautiful in so many ways.”
Dana’s attacker Natalie Dimitrovska, is currently serving a 17 year jail sentence after she broke into Dana’s apartment in the early hours of February 16, 2012, and poured methylated spirits on her while holding a naked flame.
Doctors never expected Dana to survive the horror attack, which occurred while Dimitrovska was high on ice.
Dana has since gone on to become a motivational speaker and detailed the attack in her 2017 book Worth Fighting For.
In it, she recalled how it felt like “the whole world was on fire” when her face, arms, chest, shoulders and naked stomach all went up in flames.
“The flames spread to my head, my hair went up in seconds and when I reached up to wipe the burning chemicals off my face, my hands were already on fire,” Dana recalled.
“The pain was excruciating but through my screaming I could hear Natalie making her escape through the sliding door.
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“She was laughing at me while I burnt alive. When I stood up the flames were getting worse and I could barely think through the pain.
“Panicked, I turned to the sink, trying to put the flames out by pouring a bucket of water over myself.”
In the aftermath of the attack, Dana became a victim to a stalker, opening up to Channel 7’s The Morning Show in 2019 about her five-year ordeal with someone obsessed with her story.
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