At age 10, Danette Haag was severely burned in a house fire but she survived, suffering burns to 70 percent of her body. She was left battling physical and emotional scars that would follow her into adulthood. Now 50, Danette has learned to love the skin she lives in, becoming a wife and mother and fulfilling her once-abandoned dream of walking the stage at a beauty pageant. Years ago, Danette’s mom was making coffee in their home in Iowa when the water heater ignited an odorless propane leak in the basement. An explosion engulfed Danette, her father, and brother in flames. Within 24 hours, Danette had slipped into a coma. Doctors, pessimistic, encouraged her family to say their goodbyes. But Danette was a fighter. “Getting through all of that and surviving it was really my first battle,” she told ABC. “A lot of pain, tons and tons of surgeries, physical …