A '90s runway coach who taught supermodels like Naomi Campbell and Kimora Lee Simmons how to walk a catwalk, Alexander shifted careers in 2003 when one of his pupils, Tyra Banks, tapped him to join her on a little UPN show called America's Next Top Model. As a judge and runway coach for a passel of wannabe supermodels, he transformed into "Miss J," bringing drag to the screen at a time when queerness was vanishingly rare on American TV screens.
I was off work for a few weeks, but without paid leave I had to return sooner than doctors advised. I worked from home for a few months since I still couldn't drive. I loved the challenge of the work, the way no day was ever the same, and I had thrived on that pace. But I was still recovering. Winded by the smallest physical activity, I struggled with memory, and words sometimes came out scrambled or not at all.
David O'Donnell from Ballina in Co Tipperary said the alarm was raised by his parents when they found their then two-and-a-half-year-old son could not speak or move the right side of his body as he lay in his cot. "Doctors had no explanation of a child this young coming in with a stroke and told my parents this.They couldn't find any clear reason."
In 2019, at the age of 25, my life took an unexpected turn overnight when I underwent brain surgery to remove a tumor. During the surgery I suffered a stroke, which left me unable to walk or write, and with the sensation that the world is constantly moving. Due to nerve damage, the right side of my face was also permanently paralyzed. When I woke up, everything was different, mostly in the way I saw the world
Look, we have talked a lot about his stroke and about his depression. And I am so proud of him and his courage and his medical miracle that he is now talking fluently. He's making total sense. He's pro-Israel now. He's really moderate. It's almost like his out-of-body experiences that he's had have made him more open to different ways of thinking.
A year ago tomorrow , the Zacatecas native suffered a heart attack and mild stroke in the moments after seeing his Dodgers win Game 2 of the World Series against the New York Yankees. He spent three days in a medically induced coma at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood and regained consciousness to news from jubilant nurses that the Dodgers had won the championship.
To me, Instagram is nothing but a vast repository of self-deception. A modern-day Barbie's world, where one in a thousand own up to their shortcomings. I joined Instagram to piss these people off.
