The process of success is a tortuous celebrity story.

Lauren wasser, a model with artificial limbs, became popular at New York Fashion Week.

Some people know her way because of a report: an unfortunate girl had her leg amputated because of a tampon.

After amputation, she returned to the road of modeling and took to the stage of fashion week, and called on everyone to pay attention to TSS and help TSS patients. I think her story is inspiring enough.

By the way, she is also the spokesperson of Nike!

Just as Ahahanna in ancient Greece would not have thought, his work Venus was regarded as the standard of human aesthetics by later generations after her arm was damaged. So is Lauren. As long as life is complete enough, incompleteness is a brilliant footnote.

One: Disasters never come when they are unprepared.

Lauren was born in a model family. She followed her supermodel mother all over Paris, Milan, London and new york since she was a child. At the age of two, she joined her mother's Italian fashion magazine. When she grew up, Lauren was close to 1.8 meters tall. She was selected by the university team to become a basketball player and won a full scholarship.

Perhaps it was inspired by her genes. She switched to modeling at the age of 20, and her tough and handsome appearance and the accumulation of her small family made her rise all the way in the career of the runway.

But the disaster came in 20 12 10. An ordinary period, a tampon, let Lauren poisoning shock.

This is a rare disease, called toxic shock syndrome, also known as TSS. The tampon is in close contact with the epithelial cells of the body, which reduces the resistance. Moreover, if the interval between users changing tampons is too long, the tampon will crack the endometrium because of its strong water absorption, which will lead to a kind of Staphylococcus aureus entering the blood, thus causing symptoms such as sore throat, fever, joint muscle pain, blood pressure drop, and even severe shock. Fortunately, the incidence of this disease is very small, only three per 100,000.

However, Lauren unfortunately won the lottery. She had a high fever, organ failure, and even dying ... After wandering on the death line several times, Lauren was finally rescued, but her right leg left her forever.

"I feel that my life is ruined, and suicide may be a relief." Lauren wasser wears a prosthetic leg and needs twice as much effort as usual to walk. In order to prevent wear and tear, the residual limb has to be put on layers of protective socks, which is stuffy and sweaty.

As a model and sports lover, losing her leg is like losing her life. Lauren wanted to die several times during that time.

Two: "Golden Leg" has become her unique symbol.

"You will feel' I am strong' and' I am a beautiful girl' all your life, but this is beyond your control. I spent quite a long time thinking about whether I am still valuable and still beautiful. " What finally got Lauren back on her feet was love.

Lauren's girlfriend Jennifer is a photographer. Before getting sick, Jennifer liked to aim the camera at Lauren. After the amputation, Lauren avoided again and again, but Jennifer told Lauren with the camera that she never lost her beauty.

It is these photos that make Lauren walk out of the haze of fate and regain her confidence. She began to make up, shoot advertisements, and even took the initiative to ask photographers to take pictures of her artificial limbs.

This determined "golden leg" has also become her unique symbol.

Lauren soon became the darling of major brands, and Nike also took a fancy to her courage and charm and invited her to shoot advertisements. On 20 16 New York Fashion Week, she put on a classic skeleton skirt and walked out of the runway confidently on one leg, which spread all over the fashion media in an instant.

Third, challenge the world with one left leg, and she still wins completely.

While the modeling career is booming, Lauren has not forgotten her misfortune. She set up a public welfare organization to arouse people's attention to TSS and help others with TSS.

Although she suffers from using tampons, tampons are not the chief culprit of the disease. Using tampons will not infect TSS, and half of TSS patients do not use tampons.

Through Lauren's story, if more and more women can realize how to use tampons correctly, it can not only avoid the recurrence of the tragedy, but also greatly improve the quality of life of women. The precautions are simple: use cotton strips with low water absorption, change them frequently, and the use time of each strip is no more than 8 hours, that's all.

Although many men are still biased against tampons, your body is your own, and it is everyone's right to choose a healthy and comfortable lifestyle freely.

Lauren also sued the manufacturer of tampons she used in the past, and promoted the introduction of a series of laws and regulations: the water absorption grade of tampons must be clearly marked on the packaging of tampons, and TSS risk warning is on the instructions.

Lauren lost her right leg in an accident. But challenging the world with one left leg, she still won completely.

God sometimes closes a door for you in a prank, and may even take a window with him when he leaves. Instead of hiding in the door and lamenting, why not kick open a new door?