This woman's nose won't stop growing

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46-year old Pamela Ichard from Louisiana is making headlines for a very rare condition: Her nose won't stop growing.

The guest on the show The Doctors has had a condition called Rhinophyma since she was 15. Her acne was so bad, the bumps on her nose would sometimes turn purple. She tried to fix her skin with laser surgery and other medications, but her doctors had no other answers. Instead, her nose kept enlarging.

"When my second child came, I noticed that the shape of my nose changed. From that point on, my nose continued to swell up and become disfigured," Ichard said.

While there is no cure for Ichard's condition, she will have surgery to try to take away the excess tissue.

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