Who is Chiara Bordi, the girl with prosthetic leg who wants Miss Italy

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She has a modular knee prosthesis down, having lost a good part of the leg left after a road accident five years ago and now wants to compete in the Miss Italy competition. Chiara Bordi, 18 years old on September 1st, student of the last year of the clbadical high school, seasonal barista of Tarquinia

In the long stay at Rome's Gemelli Hospital after the motorcycle accident, she undergoes three transtibial amputation interventions of the leg, that is to say up to the knee below. Patrizia Mirigliani, the Miss Italy boss, considered Chiara fit, like many other Italian girls, and addressed the regional selections, because then follow the ordinary routine to attempt the landing at the September final . "Our – said Mirigliani – is a beauty without borders and the disability in this case is synonymous with a wounded and redeemed femininity Chiara is the symbol of the strength of those who love life and want to be reborn after a dramatic period" .

Chiara explains in turn that "yes yes to a beauty contest to win but my main goal is to give a message to young people to know how to defend their life, always giving them a new opportunity, I have the intention to convey my courage to a wider audience because my experience shows that we can live the disability in normality, play sports, in a love story and , why not, in a contest of

Chiara Bordi and Patrizia Mirigliani (Miss Italy)

Together with a 26-year-old Lorenzo Costantini, who lost a leg in an accident at the workplace, Chiara puts these ideas into practice by meeting the pupils of the schools (already 17 plexuses visited) between Rome and Viterbo to make known her story inspired by holiness and determine Both have joined the "SuperAbile" project conceived and founded by Bbadano Romano councilor Alfredo Boldorini. And it must be said that Chiara despite the prosthesis canoeing, windsurfing, climbing rock walls and is dedicated to diving. "But I never thought I could show Miss Italia with my wonderful high heels …".

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