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A model who lost 95 per cent of her jaw to bone cancer has posed for her first photoshoot since her life-changing diagnosis and surgery.

Elizaveta Bulokhova, from Ontario, Canada, was only 24-years-old and pregnant with her son Valentin in October when she learned she had osteosarcoma in her jawbone. After an excruciating 16-hour surgery to remove the tumor and the surrounding area, followed by reconstruction, the model was told to terminate her pregnancy before undergoing chemotherapy.

However, her wounds were slow to heal, causing delays in her chemo schedule and miraculously allowing her to give birth to her son 10 weeks early; the 25-year-old, who worked as a fashion model for seven years, was joined by seven-month-old Valentin when she stepped in front of Toronto-based photographer Manolo Ceron's camera lens for a series of stunning photos highlighting Elizaveta's scars - and her strength.

Shocking diagnosis: Elizaveta Bulokhova (pictured), from Ontario, Canada, was only 24-years-old and pregnant with her son Valentin when she learned she had osteosarcoma in her jawbone

Miracle baby: The model, who is pictured with her son, was told that she would have to terminate the pregnancy, but delays following her surgery allowed her to deliver him via cesarean section 10 weeks early

The powerful images, which are meant to invoke hope, show Elizaveta, who lost her hair during chemotherapy, posing with nothing but colorful make-up on her face, created by make-up artist Julia Stone.

Other photos feature Valentin, including one touching picture of him reaching out towards his mother’s face as she cradles him in her arms.

Valentin's father and Elizaveta's boyfriend Roman Troubetskoi also appears in a few the images shot by Manolo.

'I just wanted to reminisce about what it felt like to be myself before everything,' Elizaveta told Daily Mail Online of the shoot. 'I did it for myself [as a way] to remember things because I really miss my work; I really miss the atmosphere and being in front of the camera.

'I didn't think of the outcome or anything,' she added.

Family of fighters: Valentin spent 51 days in neonatal intensive care while Elizaveta started five cylcles of chemotherapy

True beauty: Photographer Manolo Ceron asked Elizaveta to get in front of the camera lens for the first time since she was diagnosed with bone cancer

Transformational art: Manolo said Elizaveta's photos show how fragile and beautiful we are as humans

Manolo, who asked Elizaveta if she wanted to pose for the photos, told Vice that they wanted to use 'art as a tool to tell her story'.

'[Elizaveta] is the theme. She is the story and everything else is a tool to enhance that beauty and her strength,' he explained. 'It shows how fragile we are and how beautiful we are.

'It's hard to put one core message in it, but there's a lot of hope and strength and there are a lot of cancer survivors out there who might take something from this, and maybe that's what the underlying message is.'

Over the course of 14 months Elizaveta has overcome obstacle after obstacle starting with her life-threatening cancer diagnosis.

Strike a pose: Elizaveta, pictured before her diagnosis, has been modeling for many years

Fashion star: The model, who is pictured in March 2014, regularly shared behind the scenes updates from shoots on her Instagram account

Lifetime of memories: Elizaveta said the photoshoot helped her to remember what her live was like before she was diagnosed with cancer

The mother-of-one started to notice inflammation on her jaw in May 2014 but chalked it up to something relating to her teeth.

'I never even thought in my head that it could be anything more than than,' she told Daily Mail Online.

Elizaveta learned she was pregnant with her son a month later, and by July, she noticed that her jaw had a small hard lump that began to hurt.

When she and Roman visited the dentist, they told her to come back in September when she was in her second trimester of pregnancy, so she could safely have an X-ray.

After she returned, she was sent to the doctor had three biopsies, which revealed that she had osteosarcoma of the mandible.

Fulfilling career: The new mom, who worked as a fashion model for seven years, said it is the one thing she loves to do the most

Feeling bright: Elizaveta wore colorful make-up for the the series of photos that highlight her scars from her surgeries

Keep fighting: Manolo said the pictures have a message of hope and strength, which he hopes will be inspiring to other cancer survivors

Elizaveta's first surgery, in which doctors removed her tumor and 95 per cent of her jaw, lasted 16 hours, and surgeons used some of the fibula bone from her right leg, as well as nerve and skin tissue harvest from her leg, arm, hip and shoulder, to reconstruct her jawbone.

Following a succession of surgeries, Elizaveta's mouth was wired shut for 10 weeks. While she got her nutrition through a nasogastric feeding tube, a tracheostomy helped her to breathe. Elizaveta couldn't talk, brush her teeth, or walk properly during this difficult time.

Doctors had told her that she would have to terminate her pregnancy before undergoing five cycles of chemotherapy.

'I just told myself whatever the universe has in store for me I will accept it,' she recalled. 'If my baby is meant to be born, he will be born.'

Painful procedure: Surgeons used fibula bone from her right leg, as well as nerve and skin tissue harvest from her leg, arm hip and shoulder to reconstruct her jawbone

Difficult recovery: After her surgery, Elizaveta had to have her mouth wired shut for 10 weeks

Complications from her surgery continued to delay Elizaveta's chemotherapy - and saved her from terminating the pregnancy. When Valentin was 28 weeks, Elizaveta and Roman asked doctors if she could safely deliver her son.

Doctors tried to induce natural labor during the first week of December, but she wouldn't dilate, so they proceeded with a cesarean section. Valentin came out crying, and Elizaveta remembered thinking that was a good sign.

A week later, on Christmas day, she started her first round of chemo. Valentin spent 51 days in neonatal intensive care, which allowed the new mom, who was battling an illness to take things slow. Elizaveta visited her new son whenever it was safe to be around him.

'In the sense it gave us a little bit of time to take it easy,' she said of the support she had at the hospital.

Mother and son: Elizaveta recalled telling herself that she would accept whatever the universe had in store for her

Family photo: Valentin's father and Elizaveta's boyfriend Roman Troubetskoi also appeared in some of the images shot by Manolo

Beautiful couple: Elizaveta and Roman shared a tender kiss for one of the heart-warming family photos

In addition to enduring debilitating chemotherapy, Elizaveta was struggling to eat with her new jaw. She could only open her mouth about five millimeters, and all of her food had to be mushy. Even consuming a smoothing was a struggle.

'My stomach had shrunk, and I was only able to eat little bit, but I had to do it often,' she explained. 'It would take me an hour to eat an egg.'

Elizaveta missed food terribly, yet she had to force herself to eat because of the pain. Meanwhile, her nasal tube would cause her to gag. After she gave up her feeding tube, she started drinking water and saw it come come out of her face. She was so traumatized that she went to the emergency room and put the tube back in herself.

When her cancer is in remission, she will have to have more reconstructive surgery. And while the future of her modeling career is still unknown, her photoshoot with Manolo helped her to relive the past.

'To do what I love the most, it made me so happy,' she said.

Getting stronger: Elizaveta's hair is starting to grow back after she hadher last round of chemotherapy in April