A FOUR-year-old girl has put plastic surgery on her Christmas list after bullies branded her ‘ugly’.

Laila Mclatchie from Cumnock constantly has both children and adults ‘point and laugh’ at the large growth on her face that she has had since birth.

Her mum Laura Mclatchie, 33, has been left ‘heartbroken’ because Laila says she is regularly teased and other kids won’t play with her.

The youngster has now become extremely insecure and withdrawn often asking her mum why can’t she just be ‘normal’ and look like her sister.

Doctors promised to remove the ulcerated hamangioma by the time she was four and a half but sadly the schoolgirl has now been put on another waiting list for two more years.

Now the frustrated mum is determined to get the surgery as soon as possible by going private to stop the bullying - but it is going to cost thousands of pounds.

She said: “This is the largest it has ever been.

“She’s being teased at school and street by adults and children, people pass her in the street and point and laugh or ask questions and she really doesn’t like it.

“We were told by the NHS that is a lot of cases they would perform surgery at the age of four-and-a-half.

“We attended the hospital for her birthmark removal to be told she had been placed on another one to two years waiting list due to the lack of paediatricians for cosmetic surgery.

“I have found out that I can get the same treatment much sooner on private health care in Surrey but need help.”

A haemangioma is a collection of small blood vessels that form a lump under the skin.

Haemangiomas can be superficial or deep. Some haemangiomas are a combination of the superficial and deep kinds, with a raised, red area on the surface of the skin, and a bluish swelling of abnormal blood vessels deeper in the skin.

The cause of haemangiomas is not fully known. but there is evidence to suggest that a proportion may arise from placental tissue very early in pregnancy.

Laura added: “She’s very conscious of it she doesn’t like anyone talking about it or touching it. People point and laugh at her saying she’s ugly it’s really bothering her.

“She feels she needs to explain what it is to everyone because no one wants to play with her.

“My daughter is being teased at school for the ‘lump’ as they call it. As a mother I cannot let her go through this for another two years. Especially when it can be taken away.”