Amputation of the arm or leg does not prevent becoming a professional amputee-model. Beauty and disability do not contradict each other.
At a 2021 competition for athletes with physical disabilities, Marine Corps veteran Annika Hutsler met a 10-year-old girl who, like her, had a leg amputation below the knee. The girl’s …
Cairn Atkinson, 35, is a model, actress, and limb difference/differently-abled advocate from Los Angeles, California, USA. She was diagnosed with a rare cancer called Epithelioid Sarcoma in July 2018 when …
Model had both legs amputated because of the condition Lauren Wasser, a model who lost both of her legs due to toxic shock syndrome (TSS), has reflected on the lasting …
Allison Lang is on a mission to break the stigma. On Tuesday, the Canadian amputee and disability advocate took to Instagram to pen an honest and moving message alongside a fitness video for Disability Pride Month, …
Bernadette Hagans, 25, was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma, an aggressive cancer of the soft tissue, aged 22. “I knew I was in pain. I knew something was wrong. I didn’t …
Claire Bridges from Tampa, Florida, who was born with a congenital heart condition, was also diagnosed with myocarditis, rhabdomyolysis, mild pneumonia, cyanosis and acidosis A young model forced to have …
Most people don’t wake up in the morning and spontaneously decide they want to hike the Manitou Incline. But for Lexie Bader, that was her decision. “I sat in my …
An Irish model has said that representing amputees as she walks down the catwalk at London Fashion Week has been the highlight of her career so far. Irish model Bernadette …
The kicker is, she is the first amputee to play a leading role as an amputee in a network TV series and it is her first major role, having started …
A large tree stops Gina Ruhl in her tracks on a cold sunny day in western Germany. “I wound up wrapped round a tree just like that.”A motorcycle accident changed …
