An influencer seen here smilingly dancing during carnival has told how she went through unbearable pain after a nail from the 18-kilogramme costume stabbed her in the back.

Marcelly Abreu, who has 206,000 Instagram followers, had paraded at the Santos Carnival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, despite the agony and said she felt the blood running down her body on 10th February.

Marcelly said the nail came loose due to an improvisation to fix a part of the costume that was missing.

She said: “The pain was unbearable. At one point, I ‘hid’ in a sound car and asked the support staff to hold the coaster [back of the costume] so I could breathe a little.

“When they let go, it went in the back again. I danced with the blood dripping.”

She said the costume arrived several hours before the show, so they had to improvise over the missing part.

Marcelly said: “Using the coaster was important, as one requirement was to parade without parts of the body showing.

“We found this ‘little chair’ on the floor of the concentration, from someone who discarded it.

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“It had this nail and, as it was improvised, in the first step I took samba, and it got into my back.”

Marcelly, who has already paraded last year for Uniao Imperial, in Santos, and five other times at the Rio de Janeiro Carnival, three for Mangueira and two for Salgueiro, said this was the first time she experienced a similar thing.

She said: “I surpassed my own limits. The pain was very great, and I left the parade without feeling my arms.

“I spent two days with them numb. I also had difficulty opening and closing my hands.”

Despite the pain, Marcelly said she was motivated to dance samba because she knew she was performing infront of her eight-year-old son.

She said: “He accompanied me during the months of preparation and, in addition, I ‘latched on’ to the community, to the people who were with me throughout this time.”