The woman who owes her smile to SELFIES: 27-year-old whose face was left paralysed used pictures to teach her to move her mouth again

Anna Robinson (right), 27, from Nottingham, was terrified when she woke up earlier this year to discover she could no longer move her face. 


She assumed she had suffered a stroke - but she had actually been struck down by Bell's palsy, which causes facial muscles to freeze up. Doctors told her she may never regain movement in her face and that just one in 14 people actually recover. But determined to get back to her old self, she snapped a series of selfies to teach herself how to smile again. And just two months after her diagnosis, she managed to crack her first grin (left) since suffering from the condition.