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Meet The Wheelchair-Bound Babes Of TV's New 'Push Girls'

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push girls auti tiphanyWhile Monday nights are filled with reality romances and variety competitions, there's another show catching a lot of buzz. 

Sundance premiered its original show "Push Girls" Monday night, following four sexy, driven wheelchair bound women.

The docu-series comes from producer Gay Rosenthal ("Little People, Big World") and follows the lives of the women living daily with their paralysis.

Though the show gives an in-depth look at what its like living day-to-day in a wheelchair, don't pity the girls. The four set general misconceptions straight about people in wheel chairs—they don't date guys in wheel chairs, they do work out at the gym and, yes, they do have sex.

"Push Girls" is essentially the ultimate "girl power" show.

In case you missed the premiere, here's a look into the four women featured on the show. 

Angela Rockwood

Age: 36
Paralyzed: September 3, 2011 at age 18

Rockwood was a lingerie model for Vanity Fair making $500 a day at age 18. She was paralyzed in a car accident after her friend lost control of the vehicle she was driving home from a trip to San Francisco. Rockwood catapulted 25 feet out of the car breaking her neck and severing her spinal cord. She was given a 3-5 percent chance of ever feeling or moving anything below her neck.

At the time she had just signed with an acting and modeling agency and was engaged to actor Dustin Nguyen ("21 Jump Street"). The couple was married for ten years, but are currently separated. 

Currently, she's an actress and working model.



Auti Angel

Age: 22

Paralyzed: May 3, 1992

Angel acts, sings, raps and dances. She was a professional hip hop dancer performing with artists including N.W.A. and L.L. Cool J on stage and appearing in Ludacris' video "Stand Up."

At age 22, she snapped her back in half in a car accident. The injury severed her spinal cord and a doctor told her mother she'd never walk or dance again. Five months after her diagnosis, she met her current husband of four years, Eric

Angel currently works with a number of nonprofits and founded her own program, Save a Soul Foundation, to help at-risk youth and young adults in the Los Angeles area. She also started a hip-hop wheelchair dance group, Colours 'n' Motion in 2003.



Tiphany Adams

Age: 28

Paralyzed: October 15, 2000 at age 16

Adams is a preschool teacher who was paralyzed in a head-on collision where she was hit by a drunk driver at 130 mph. She was originally pronounced dead with everyone at the scene. When pulled from the wreckage, her family was given a five percent chance of survival.



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