I grew up with model parents.

I always was on set.

I always was following my mom around, you know, paris new york London living a life, two peas in a pod.

Pretty much.

I just was always in the business, I played basketball my whole life and I actually thought I wasn't gonna W N.

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If you can believe that, it's kind of like my goal in life.

So a pair of heels or a pair of jordans, I was 24 years old for active, healthy period was really heavy, so I would use a super absorbent tampons.

It was just a normal day in october and then I started feeling a little off, like something that just ran me over when they found me, I was face down on my bedroom floor, they rushed me to ST john's and they found the tampon they sent into the lab and as soon as it came back, came back as TSS one just toxic shock syndrome, they basically gave me a 1% chance of survival and told my mom to prepare my funeral.

I was an automatically and just come up for a week and a half.

I woke up and I just remember my feet being excruciating gain.

Green was setting into my leg and they amputated my right leg below the knee.

I eventually made the decision to amputate my second leg because the damage was just too severe.

This is the first leg.

That was the gold one that I made gold that I shared with the world.

I'm really excited about going to new york city fashion week with this new me with my new set of gold legs.

The first woman, I walked with the brand crow matt and I was using a suction socket, which means it's just held on by the suction and liner.

As I was walking, I could feel the legs slipping in my head.

I was like, I can't have the gold leg falling on the runway.

Like you got to keep going.

So it worked out amazing.

But to have that little incident and kind of have to make it work.

The nerves are what are exciting.

I think clothes tell a lot about a person.

I think what you choose to put on in the morning affects your day.

I love mixing it up between secondhand and Pucci and divinci and kind of making a mix can't beat $5 glasses.

I think that's the fun part about fashion is because everything can mix and match and you create your own piece.

Pretty much.

That's why we love it.

When this first happened, I was definitely my own prison.

I was wearing hoodies and sweatpants hiding the fact I didn't have a leg.

I look cool.

I look like a warrior.

I look like I just went through some crazy stuff and I survived.

So just landed in new york city.

I'm so excited to be here.

Just the air of new york city.

It speaks a lot, a lot is happening.

A lot of castings, A lot of meetings.

I'm meeting with the congresswoman and hopefully gonna be kicking some butt.

Mhm Yeah.

Usually when I go to castings I just put on like a little bit makeup, gotta have the lip gloss.

It's very important chapstick.

Actually not even that blood class and a little mascara.

I feel good.

I feel ready to go.

I feel like I can take on the world in a business that is so perfect all the time.

And beauty is only shown in one way to be able to throw myself in the mix and stir the pot a little bit.

I think it's cool.

I saw it as an opportunity to highlight people in similar situations like myself who have never been publicized.

Especially in the fashion world, shoulder right here.

That perfect little smile.

Yes, right there.

The little girls that I've just met in the last 23 years that unfortunately been victims of TSS who have lost toes and are on dialysis.

Those are the girls that I live for toxic shock syndrome has been an epidemic for over 30 years before I was even born.

Once I found that out a fire just lit in my heart.

Mm hmm.

I linked up with Congresswoman out of New York City.

Her name was Carolyn Maloney and she has been trying to pass a bill for almost a decade named after a woman who died of toxic shock syndrome in 1988.

It's called the Robin Danielson Act.

And it's basically just for us as women to know what's going on are feminine hygiene products, what my bill does, it requires the National Institute of Health too.

Keep data on how many people are stricken with it, how many people die with it.

And to do research on what is in tampons.

We have done more research on coffee filters and we've done on a tampon.

We need to force government to collect the data.

But of all the bills that I've worked on, it's been most difficult to pass bills that affect women who knows how many women have been affected and lost their lives and haven't been able to use their voice or speak about it.

Well, we're gonna do this together, We're in for the long run.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Mhm, mm hmm.

My favorite thing that's happened this whole trip really, to be honest, is meeting with the congresswoman because that was too long of a wait and we finally did it and it's so awesome and she's so awesome and I feel like that's really going to get the stink pumping and get some motion.

So mission accomplished on that.

The biggest thing I've taken away from my whole experience on just the way this trip has been.

But I think just trusting the process, believing in yourself believing in your journey things that you maybe want to do or achieve.

It's possible.

You just gotta keep the fire alive.

Mhm.

Yeah.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This Fashion week is super important because I'm finally just showing up, showing everyone that I'm here and I'm ready to go.

I'm paying free.

I'm excited to fight.

I'm excited to change the world.

I'm excited to just see me again and hopefully do some good.

Mm hmm.

Yes.