After Surviving Vicious Dog Attack, Model Finds Strength and a New Life in Wood Chopping

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Gia Armani was just 15 when she was first scouted for modeling. At the time, she didn’t even know plus-size or curvy models existed. Discovering that world opened her eyes and set her on a path she never imagined.

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00:00My whole life I like struggled with my weight so I would just always look for active things to do

00:11and I moved into a house that had a fireplace in every room and I was buying firewood already

00:19split and I just thought like that looks like a great workout like it's funny when I started I

00:25think one of the reasons I went viral was because people thought I was doing it wrong and they're

00:29like you're swinging it wrong you're doing like this but I was thinking about like doing it a

00:33little bit harder to make it a workout like I was 80 pounds heavier at one point and um before this

00:41I was modeling full-time this freak accident happened and I was bitten in the face by a dog

00:46and he broke my nose like I had these crazy scars all across my face um it put me out of work because

00:52obviously model you're kind of like this human hanger you know or like human mannequin so

00:58these scars on my face wasn't good for like commercial anyway I was really inspired to do

01:04content and I decided to um do it after my mom like suddenly passed from a rare form of cancer and

01:11I just felt like super lost and just didn't really know what to do at that point it kind of just hit

01:17rock bottom so I put my all into it I started doing like different kinds of workouts and one day I just

01:23there was wood in my backyard someone had been slitting it for me and I asked them like if they

01:29could just teach me how to do it and they were like are you sure you want to you want to do this and I

01:33was like yeah I'm gonna go on a live stream right now and like do it and they were like okay and it

01:37just went absolutely viral like I started posting videos it just went crazy and I feel so blessed and

01:44grateful like every day I'm like how is this my life and why do people care and hopefully it just

01:51continues to grow and being a woman that goes and splits wood and gets a job done like better than

01:56most of these men while wearing a skirt like I feel like I have become this this uh person that's like

02:02better from all these terrible experiences and um I feel like it's really just shaped who I am today

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