Reddit Challenge story #12

Topic: a girl whose body is made up entirely of pancakes and how she overcomes her struggles and self image

Miranda Fox was not like the other girls and her parents knew it the moment she was born, the moment she was first seen in an ultrasound, really. Miranda knew it the moment she first became truly self aware, around age three. Everyone who saw Miranda knew she was not like other girls; in fact, she was not like any other person: Miranda Fox’s skin was composed of smooth, perfectly cooked buttermilk pancakes.
At first things were very difficult, Miranda’s parents had to stop her eating herself from time to time as a toddler and by the time she was old enough for preschool they suddenly had to deal with other children, and things became if anything, even more difficult. Miranda was called names like pancake face, syrup sally, batter for brains and the ever present Aunt Jemima. As Miranda made it to high school, it was evident she was having serious body image issues. Every night she would spend hours in front of the mirror, staring at herself. She would complain to her mother about not being as thin as the other girls, and not having an epidermis. For her parents, it was torture to see their little girl go through all this, so they called an expert at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
The doctors tirelessly researched Miranda’s case, poking and prodding and testing her in every way imaginable. Finally after months of testing, with Miranda isolated from her family, the doctors called her parents to the facility to discuss their findings. What the doctors had discovered was amazing: Miranda’s pancake skin and body regenerated faster than any other human in existence. The doctors could literally remove an entire pancake’s worth of “skin” and it would grow back within seconds; the good that Miranda could do was immense. Miranda immediately decided what she wanted to do with her life: she would devote herself to feeding the hungry with her own delicious skin. For years to come Miranda would work with organizations worldwide to help use her pancake skin to feed the world. She had overcome her struggle with her body, and Miranda had never been happier.