LOS ANGELES — An Afghan teen featured on the Aug. 9 cover of Time magazine after her nose was cut off arrived in Southern California on Friday for treatment.
The 18-year-old, identified only as Bibi Aisha (Miss Aisha), told Time her nose and ears were cut off by her abusive husband — with Taliban approval — to punish her for running away. The controversial photo appeared with the headline, “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan.”
Dr. Peter Grossman, co-director of the Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks, Calif., said his wife, Rebecca, who heads the Grossman Burn Foundation, saw Aisha on television and knew they could help her.
The foundation paid to bring Aisha to Los Angeles, found a host family and is funding her treatment, Grossman said. That could include a prosthetic nose or reconstruction of her nose and ears using bone, tissue and cartilage from the rest of her body, he said.
