Afghan woman with no nose to undergo surgery to rebuild face I don't care. Everybody has some kind of problem," she told CNN. At the beginning, I was very scared. I was scared to look at my face in the mirror ... to think what will happen in the future to me. But now I'm not scared anymore. Doctors will use cartilage from her ribs to rebuilt the structure of her nose and then cover it with skin from her forehead, which has been swollen with painful injections of saline. Her case came to prominence when Time magazine used a picture of her on its cover, with the suggestion that this was what would happen if the West left Afghanistan. She was married off as a child bride, and fled her husband, a Taliban fighter, after he and his family beat her and treated her as a slave. She was captured and returned to her village in the southern province of Uruzgan, where her husband and in-laws mutilated her after a local Taliban mullah judged the case and decided to make an example of her. Doctors have delayed the surgery until now after they judged she was not emotionally fit for the long, painful procedures when she first arrived in America. At first she threw violent tantrums and would occasionally hurt herself during what doctors called "faux seizures." She is now living with an Afghan family in Maryland and says the nightmares that plagued her when she first arrived have stopped. "What happened, it's part of me, part of my life and it's all the time in my mind and with me," she told CNN. But I have to live, and I have to love.