Strong-spirit

Strong-spirit: biographies of notable people, their careers, life stories, key achievements and influence on culture, history and society.

American triple amputee war veteran

American, blind, runner and motivator.

British woman with 30 amputations, Raynaud's, scleroderma and lupus

23-year-old American model born without legs

Mahendra Ahirwar

Indian teenager with congenital myopathy

Turkish woman who miscarried twins was wrongly treated with chemotherapy

The British woman who had to choose which of her daughters would survive

Sadie Rutenberg

American girl with world's smallest artificial heart valve

Tiffany Posteraro

24-year-old American woman with vitiligo

Indian man with retroperitoneal liposarcoma

An American teenager who spent a day with his idols on the hockey team.

Girl with mermaid syndrome

Briton whose face was reconstructed using a 3D printer

American Paralympic athlete

British woman, victim of meningitis

Canadian girl with neurofibromatosis

Indian woman who gave birth to a child who was the victim of a parasitic twin

Jessica Curphey

British woman who was diagnosed with four kidneys

Japanese girl, victim of the Hiroshima bombing

American girl with progeria

British woman victim of botched gastric bypass surgery

24-year-old British woman whose serious spinal condition did not stop her from becoming a model

American, victim of Proteus syndrome.

Victim of blood clots

Carmelle Hartgrove

British mother of twins.

Brooke Phillips

Australian woman survives six days in desert

The Norwegian who turned his arm stump into a dolphin tattoo

Steve and Michelle Beer

A married couple who previously suffered from excess weight.

Mackenzie Gorden

Paralyzed American Woman Learns to Walk

Lisanne Casalinuovo

American woman with lymphedema

Canadian Paralympian

Australian loses 104kg after trying to 'eat himself to death'

Gabriel Granados

Mexican with double hand transplant

American woman who lost all her limbs due to infection

Obese Scottish woman who manages to halve her weight

British firefighter, former victim of paralysis.

A victim of stroke and paralysis who heard doctors talking

Miracle and Journee Brooks

Siamese Twins Separated

American woman with cystic acne

Isabelle Dinoire

The Frenchwoman who was the first in the world to have someone else's face transplanted

Little Brit with Kleine-Levin Syndrome

American with lung cancer who beat the disease with a less invasive lobectomy

American doctor who saved her life

Andranik Aleksanyan

Young Ukrainian pop singer

Olivia Pearsall

British-born Australian loses nearly 16kg in 18 months

Indian woman with lymphatic filariasis

Venezuelan man who created his own hand prosthesis

American with synovial sarcoma

Indonesian boy born with two faces and an extra brain

Developer and popularizer of human echolocation

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