First and foremost, I loved basketball. My dad introduced me to basketball when I was a baby. Lauren Wasser Read Quote
The identity that I knew was completely stripped of me. I hid, and I hated life; I hated everything. The sun would bother me. Lauren Wasser Read Quote
For five years of my life, I was just getting by – every day was painful. I couldn’t wear heels, I couldn’t run, and I could only walk for, like, 20 minutes. That’s not living. Lauren Wasser Read Quote
Had I known toxic shock was real, and had I seen someone that had either lost limbs or spoke about it publicly, I would have never used tampons. Lauren Wasser Read Quote
It wasn’t until my girlfriend, photographer Jennifer Rovero, took hundreds of pictures of me as I recovered from my amputations that things started to change. The process was a sort of therapy for me, which Jennifer coined as ‘photo therapy.’ I grew to see the beauty and strength in myself and my journey through the lens of her camera. Lauren Wasser Read Quote
I want the image of disabled people like myself to change into a picture of strength. Fashion needs to redefine its idea of beauty and have more of an open mind. Lauren Wasser Read Quote
