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Following the attack, she had to learn to walk again.

“I had almost died,” said Kent, who was taking the dogs to their pen at her grandmother’s Uxbridge when they turned on her.

“I had lost almost all of my blood. The dogs had ripped my throat open and they were literally a millimetre from my jugular and if they had hit that jugular, I would have died. They had torn the main artery in my right leg which the doctors said, after 10 hours of surgery they were going to remove, and they were able to save it. It was very intense.”

Kent said she blacked out during the attack before her grandmother screamed at the dogs to stop after her grandfather unsuccessfully tried to beat the dogs off of her.

“I felt like they were going to rip all my limbs off,” said Kent, who said the dogs were later put down. “I remember every single detail.”

“I was covering myself up until I was 16,” recalled Kent, who has modelled three times as a SUNshine Girl for theToronto Sun —most recently on May 9.

“I was severely bullied for my scars so it made me really cover myself because of that. I was called a chew toy. I was called Scarface. So it was really hard for me to become the person I am today. It just took a lot of courage and one day (when I was 16 year old) I went out and bought a pair of shorts and I decided to put them on.”

Kent, who is writing a book, said at age 19, she and her friend Michelle Pugsley started taking pictures of her scars and posting them on their Instagram accounts and she began doing videos on the Tik Tok ap.

She’d eventually like to speak to schools about bullying and body-shaming.

“I was like, ‘You know what? I can really help a lot of men and women feel confident about themselves,’” said Kent. “And now I am so comfortable with my body. I am not ashamed of my scars at all.”