Come here Mox.
(whistles)
Come around.
I'm Christy, I'm a double amputee army vet from
Lewiston, Maine and my mom nominated me for a makeover.
I was a sergeant in the US Army
as a military police officer.
I joined the Army in October of 2004.
When I was serving in Asia in 2006,
I was in a line of duty incident and injured my brain
and my spinal cord.
That left me with no feeling below my knees.
(dramatic piano)
I was really proud of Christy when she told us she was
joining the Army,
but as a mom, this is my baby girl, so that was really hard.
She just felt that she needed to do something
for our country.
At the time, the skull fractures was actually one of the
more devastating parts of the injury.
I damaged my speech and my memory.
So I don't remember growing up, I don't remember college,
I don't remember going to school.
When I rehabbed at the VA,
I started over at the third grade.
I had to learn vocab all over again and word order.
And when the doctor said, "No, you're never gonna be able
"to do any of this stuff,"
that was really, really tough on her,
'cause she felt that my life is over.
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I felt so hopeless and so dependent on everyone for so
long that I think the first three years of rehab was
the most frustrating part of my life, ever.
As time went on, my feet degraded more and more,
and in 2015, decided that it was time
to have my legs amputated.
As soon as it healed and I got my first prosthetic,
the first couple steps were a little shaky,
but I learned to walk really, really fast.
And I started running for the first time,
six months after losing my legs.
It was incredible, to be able to have that option
back in my life.
Losing her legs saved her life.
It was like I got my daughter back.
This was the little girl that used to run around like crazy,
was happy, had a good time,
and she has not missed a beat since.
This one's for the water.
Now I have walking legs, hiking legs, sprinting legs,
I have legs for surfing.
There's one type of prosthetic leg that I love to still have
and it's one with an adjustable ankle and be able to even
wear heels if I wanted, or a wedge or something cute.
That's my buddy, huh?
Moxy's my service dog.
She's been with me for almost 10 years now.
Moxy's my best friend, my sidekick and really my guardian.
She takes care of me and I take care of her.
Hah, I got you.
I'm very active and play a lot of sports.
I'm assistant captain of the women's para ice hockey team.
I'm trying to make the US women's track and field team too.
Christy deserves this makeover because
she's just such an amazing young women,
she just works so hard at everything she does
and she gives 150% at everything,
that, I want her to have that chance to feel like, wow.
I wear a lot of tanks, I wear a lot of sports clothes,
like, it's literally all just gym clothes.
So, I don't really wear makeup,
it just seems like a lot of work
and I don't know what I'm doing so it's kind of
a daunting task.
I would love to go on dates.
I would love to feel beautiful and sexy.
What I wear and how I dress is just to be functional.
It would be nice to feel beautiful and to have that
feminine side of things.
I'm just so used to being a gym rat and a jock,
that it's quite a lifestyle flip,
but I'm excited for it.
The biggest part of this reveal was that she wanted
prosthetics and her prosthetist Rick helped us out-
Yes.
Making prosthetics that she could wear fancy shoes with.
Yeah
Come on out Christy!
(audience applause)
Wow!
Are those not the cutest little-
They're the best, they're so wild, I love it.
Look at the smile on your face.
You're psyched right?
Yes, it looks fantastic.
I also just wanted to say you guys,
is that we worked with Suave on-
They helped put all of this together.
With this makeover-
Wonderful partners.
And it's fitting because they work with a foundation
called Fisher House Foundation and they actually
provide housing, build houses for military
and their veterans' families so that when someone's
in the hospital for a long period of time,
their families can come be with them at no charge at all.
(audience applause)
They're amazing.
From now through November 18th, Suave is giving a dollar
for each of these special limited edition packs
that they sell.
So, just a big shout out to Suave for supporting the cause.
So, when you're at your drug store or your grocery store,
think, it's a good choice to make for a variety of reasons,
but you're helping out a lot of families.
Easy way to give back.
Thank you to Christy of course for her service
and to all of our service people that are with us.
Thank you for the lives we live.
We owe everything to you.
Thank you to Norma for bringing this all together.
Thank you for Kyan for executing the thing.
Thank you to Moxy.
[Multiple Speakers] Moxy!
Thank you for Moxy!
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