Watch the woman who has become a fitness model after a deadly car crash
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A car crash survivor, who was left paralyzed after the accident, has now become a fitness model.
35-year-old Tiphany Adams, from Lodi, California, had a car accident when she was just 17 years old.
She was pronounced dead on the scene by emergency services with three other people who were in the car.
After a 30-hour life-saving surgery, doctors said there was a five percent chance of survival.
She was in a coma for three weeks and when she woke up, she learned that she was paralyzed with a T10 fracture and L2 movement.
Tiphany told Barcroft TV: “When I woke up I knew that something was off, something was different. I couldn’t feel my legs like I felt them before. They were numb and tingly. So I asked my dad: ‘Why can’t I feel my legs?’ And then he brought a wheelchair to the side of the bed.”
“I could see the look in my father’s eyes and I knew he didn’t want to even say it. He started to say: ‘Baby, God has blessed us with a miracle and that is your life. And if God blesses us with another one that will be you walking. If I could do anything in the world I would trade places with you in an instant’.”
“I guess it’s an interesting dichotomy because it’s a story of tragedy but also triumph.”
Tiphany wanted to be a model and an actress. She got a major role in her school’s Shakespeare production just before the accident.
But, she didn’t give up on life and became a motivational speaker. She inspires people through her YouTube channel and has become a fitness model.
She has also participated in fitness challenges such as the Red Bull Wings for Life World Run and appeared in Reality TV show Push Girls.
She says: “I wouldn’t be the woman I am today. I wouldn’t have had the experiences I have if I were walking, so I miss it but I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. I wouldn’t go back.”
She told about the incident that changed her life: “The driver of the other vehicle proceeded to pass a semi-truck and then she passed one more going over the double yellow lines.
And once she did that, she hit the vehicle that I was in the back seat passenger side of, traveling at a 130 miles per hour impact. And that is when we were all pronounced dead on the scene.”
Tiphany uses a wheelchair and says that using a wheelchair for daily mobility is never boring. Even 17 years later she has still fallen out of her chair.
“The world is not fully accessible for people with disabilities. So now I’m going to use my YouTube channel “wheely famous” to see what’s its fully like going in and out of restaurants, different hotels – things like that.”
“There I can show people what it’s like day in and day out. I never give up, keep going, you have got this, don’t stop, don’t fall out of your chair. Enjoy this moment because you could die tomorrow”, she says.