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Amy Areias revealed on TikTok that she wears kids’ shoes due to clubfoot

She showed her scars and explained how years of surgeries had left her feet small

The viral video amassed more than 980,000 views on TikTok

Amy Areias never thought she’d become the center of a viral conversation about shoes and scars. But with her phone camera on and a pair of tiny sneakers in hand, she let the world into a part of her life she had never spoken about publicly before.

“So I went to get a new pair of sneakers yesterday at the Locker, and when I put the shoes up on the counter to be checked out, the girl that was checking me out said, ‘Oh, my gosh, these shoes are so cute,’ ” Areias tells PEOPLE. “And I said, ‘Yeah, I know, I have small feet,’ and she’s like, ‘Wait a minute, these are

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