AN ELEVEN-year-old who lost her hair due to cancer when she was just a toddler wants to make another child smile by donating her long locks to charity.

Yasmin Kinsey from Bargates, Leominster was diagnosed with a form of liver cancer called hepatoblastoma when she was two.

Following chemotherapy she lost all her hair but now, eight years after she has been given the all clear, she wants to help another child going through the same thing.

Yasmin is having her hair cut to just below her ears to donate to Little Princess Trust in Hereford, so it can by made into a wig for another child suffering hair loss.

Her mum, Claire Gibbs, 33, said: "We are really proud of her. It was all her own idea. She asked me a few months back about having her hair cut.

"I said, 'Of course you can.' She said: 'But mum, I want to have my hair cut and give it to someone else who hasn't got any.'

"She had been in that position when she was little. She was three-years-old when she lost her hair.

"She asked us why her hair fell out and where it was going. We had to say the fairies were coming to take her hair away so they could make her a beautiful wig. She was really happy with that."

Yasmin ended up not having a wig, as her hair grew back quickly and she has not had it cut since her treatment ended.

It was a heartbreaking time for Miss Gibbs and partner, Lee Kinsey, 31.

It was just a year after Miss Gibbs' mum, Bernadette Froggatt, died of stomach cancer- the day after her 44th birthday.

Miss Gibbs said: "After losing my mum and then finding out my little girl had it as well. You just think the worst. You don't want to hear it. I can't explain how it feels.

"Hearing that word, cancer. Pretty much everybody goes through it or knows someone who has but when it is your own little child- she was just two-years-old. It was awful.

"We didn't know what was going to happen- whether the chemotherapy or the surgery was going to work. We didn't know if we would lose her or not."

Yasmin still fights pain every day due to an enlarged spleen, portal hypertension and portal vein thrombosis.

But Miss Gibbs said she gets on with life and loves being a big sister to Jack, nine, and Charlie, two.

She added: "She is a happy, beautiful, friendly girl who attends school, girly sleepovers and puts a brave face on it all."

Yasmin is having her hair cut on April 4 at Renaissance Hair and Beauty in Leominster. She is also raising money for the charity to help make the wig.

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